Paradise Lost Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
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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
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
— F. R. Leavis
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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
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
— Marguerite Young
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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
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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
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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
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
— Samuel Johnson
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
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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
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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
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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
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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: