Making fun Quote by N.D. Wilson

“Such a pity that he [GK Chesterton] became a Catholic.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.”

— Ian Ker

“Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.”

— John Irving

“Chesterton is quoted as saying, “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.”

— Mark Driscoll

“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

“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.”

— Anna Beer

“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Ah, that's your problem," Riley said, relieved to be on familiar ground. "You've got a copy of Paradise Lost in your house. Biblios hate…

— Jana Oliver

“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or…

— Leland Ryken

“He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him pain, Milton…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his reputation has changed constantly. He…

— Ronald Carter