Top 500 John Milton Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?”

— John Milton

452. “Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.”

— John Milton

453. “Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.”

— John Milton

454. “And to thy husband’s will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.”

— John Milton

455. “The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.”

— John Milton

456. “His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.”

— John Milton

457. “True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.”

— John Milton

458. “Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.”

— John Milton

459. “I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”

— John Milton

460. “Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.”

— John Milton

461. “And feel that I am happier than I know.”

— John Milton

462. “And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.”

— John Milton

463. “I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”

— John Milton

464. “Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”

— John Milton

465. “No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”

— John Milton

466. “No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.”

— John Milton

467. “O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”

— John Milton

468. “Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.”

— John Milton

469. “Imparadis’d in one another’s arms.”

— John Milton

470. “The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”

— John Milton

471. “What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.”

— John Milton

472. “The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix’d to hear.”

— John Milton

473. “Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”

— John Milton

474. “Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.”

— John Milton

475. “Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”

— John Milton

476. “What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?”

— John Milton

477. “Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.”

— John Milton

478. “The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.”

— John Milton

479. “Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?”

— John Milton

480. “Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.”

— John Milton

481. “And as an ev’ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang’d Of tame villatic fowl.”

— John Milton

482. “Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

— John Milton

483. “Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.”

— John Milton

484. “I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.”

— John Milton

485. “He touch’d the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”

— John Milton

486. “For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.”

— John Milton

487. “So may’st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother’s lap.”

— John Milton

488. “Ride the air In whirlwind.”

— John Milton

489. “From haunted spring and dale Edg’d with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.”

— John Milton

490. “A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.”

— John Milton

491. “If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.”

— John Milton

492. “There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.”

— John Milton

493. “I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray’rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil’d at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm’d.”

— John Milton

494. “Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.”

— John Milton

495. “Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”

— John Milton

496. “The timely dew of sleep.”

— John Milton

497. “Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.”

— John Milton

498. “Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.”

— John Milton

499. “The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”

— John Milton

500. “Hung over her enamour’d, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.”

— John Milton