Top 500 John Milton Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”

— John Milton

102. “Evil, be thou my good.”

— John Milton

103. “Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”

— John Milton

104. “Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.”

— John Milton

105. “The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”

— John Milton

106. “Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv’st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander’s margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”

— John Milton

107. “This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”

— John Milton

108. “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

— John Milton

109. “Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.”

— John Milton

110. “The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.”

— John Milton

111. “Th’invention all admir’d, and each, how he to be th’inventor miss’d; so easy it seem’d once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.”

— John Milton

112. “There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.”

— John Milton

113. “Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.”

— John Milton

114. “Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”

— John Milton

115. “The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”

— John Milton

116. “Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.”

— John Milton

117. “From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling star.”

— John Milton

118. “Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.”

— John Milton

119. “Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.”

— John Milton

120. “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”

— John Milton

121. “Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.”

— John Milton

122. “Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

— John Milton

123. “His rod revers’d, And backward mutters of dissevering power.”

— John Milton

124. “Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.”

— John Milton

125. “Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”

— John Milton

126. “Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev’n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer’s rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.”

— John Milton

127. “Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek.”

— John Milton

128. “Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”

— John Milton

129. “United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.”

— John Milton

130. “Such sober certainty of waking bliss.”

— John Milton

131. “Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme.”

— John Milton

132. “Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”

— John Milton

133. “Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.”

— John Milton

134. “Hail holy light, offspring of heav’n firstborn!”

— John Milton

135. “Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.”

— John Milton

136. “Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?”

— John Milton

137. “Where more is meant than meets the ear.”

— John Milton

138. “To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.”

— John Milton

139. “To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”

— John Milton

140. “Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.”

— John Milton

141. “The rising world of waters dark and deep.”

— John Milton

142. “Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.”

— John Milton

143. “For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”

— John Milton

144. “Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.”

— John Milton

145. “Dark with excessive bright.”

— John Milton

146. “The brazen throat of war.”

— John Milton

147. “Death Grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill’d.”

— John Milton

148. “A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.”

— John Milton

149. “Antichrist is Mammon’s son.”

— John Milton

150. “And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.”

— John Milton