Paradise Lost Quote by Jana Oliver

“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long to discover…

— Ian McEwan

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost”

— Randi Cooley Wilson

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”

— Thomas Wharton

“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at…

— John Milton

“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”

— Martin Edwards

“A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.”

— Gérard de Nerval

“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a…

— Ronald Carter

“Those who say they hate reading are those who haven't found the right book.”

— Ryan J. Alls

“That must be something to discover a book that nobody's ever heard of or everybody thought was lost." "It's every bibliophile's dream," said Francis,…

— Charlie Lovett

“...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities....at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said. "There's always…

— Greg Cox

“It’s every man for himself,” he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he’d been laid off from his…

— Jeffrey Ford

“No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved…

— Matthew Pearl