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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Charles Darwin
- The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich
- The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — 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