Top 500 John Milton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”

— John Milton

52. “To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”

— John Milton

53. “Methought I saw my late espoused saint.”

— John Milton

54. “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, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

— John Milton

55. “See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.”

— John Milton

56. “Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”

— John Milton

57. “Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.”

— John Milton

58. “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

— John Milton

59. “I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav’nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend...”

— John Milton

60. “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

— John Milton

61. “Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.”

— John Milton

62. “Freely we serve, because freely we love.”

— John Milton

63. “With thee conversing I forget all time.”

— John Milton

64. “O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

— John Milton

65. “Beauty is Nature’s coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

— John Milton

66. “The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o’er all the world.”

— John Milton

67. “With a smile that glow’d Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue.”

— John Milton

68. “Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”

— John Milton

69. “Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.”

— John Milton

70. “So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.”

— John Milton

71. “How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”

— John Milton

72. “Now the bright morning-star, day’s harbinger, comes dancing from the east.”

— John Milton

73. “I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

— John Milton

74. “Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.”

— John Milton

75. “The never-ending flight Of future days.”

— John Milton

76. “They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.”

— John Milton

77. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

— John Milton

78. “Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.”

— John Milton

79. “Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.”

— John Milton

80. “Contemplation is wisdom’s best nurse.”

— John Milton

81. “Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.”

— John Milton

82. “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

— John Milton

83. “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.”

— John Milton

84. “Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”

— John Milton

85. “Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child!”

— John Milton

86. “Ah, why should all mankind For one man’s fault, be condemned, If guiltless?”

— John Milton

87. “Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.”

— John Milton

88. “The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.”

— John Milton

89. “Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.”

— John Milton

90. “Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.”

— John Milton

91. “Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.”

— John Milton

92. “Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.”

— John Milton

93. “Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

— John Milton

94. “Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”

— John Milton

95. “What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”

— John Milton

96. “Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”

— John Milton

97. “None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”

— John Milton

98. “A short retirement urges a sweet return.”

— John Milton

99. “Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”

— John Milton

100. “Evil on itself shall back recoil.”

— John Milton