Milton Quotes

89 Milton quotes by 74 unique authors

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you… — Dean Martin
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing… — Doug Scott
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on. — Ed McMahon
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler
Who is his manager? Milton Bradley. — Unknown Author
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. — Walter Winchell
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of… — Thomas Gray
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it… — William Blake
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother. — Augustine Birrell
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around… — Terry Eagleton
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much… — Glen Duncan
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll… — John Mahoney
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of… — George Bernard Shaw
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a… — H. L. Mencken
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention… — Ambrose Bierce
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was… — William Blake
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. — William Wordsworth

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