Paradise Lost Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on… — Mark Twain
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the… — John Drinkwater
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies… — C.S. Lewis
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young
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
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of… — Cornell Woolrich
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic… — Susan Cain
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson
The only paradise is paradise lost. — Marcel Proust
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence,… — John Milton
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing… — Aldous Huxley
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you… — Holly Black
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison

Who Wrote These Paradise Lost Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Paradise Lost Quotes as follows: