Top 500 John Milton Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?”

— John Milton

252. “God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman’s happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.”

— John Milton

253. “Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson’s learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”

— John Milton

254. “And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”

— John Milton

255. “Commands are no constraints.”

— John Milton

256. “And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”

— John Milton

257. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

— John Milton

258. “Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason’s garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.”

— John Milton

259. “In God’s intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.”

— John Milton

260. “Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”

— John Milton

261. “Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death’s harbinger.”

— John Milton

262. “The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”

— John Milton

263. “The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.”

— John Milton

264. “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.”

— John Milton

265. “Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”

— John Milton

266. “For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”

— John Milton

267. “Wickedness is weakness.”

— John Milton

268. “Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.”

— John Milton

269. “A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.”

— John Milton

270. “And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.”

— John Milton

271. “Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.”

— John Milton

272. “Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half.”

— John Milton

273. “For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

— John Milton

274. “These two imparadised in one another’s arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.”

— John Milton

275. “Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n.”

— John Milton

276. “Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”

— John Milton

277. “O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.”

— John Milton

278. “Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.”

— John Milton

279. “Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush’d the sweet poison of misused wine.”

— John Milton

280. “Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o’er true virginity.”

— John Milton

281. “License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.”

— John Milton

282. “And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse.”

— John Milton

283. “Wisdom’s self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.”

— John Milton

284. “The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display’d.”

— John Milton

285. “My sentence is for open war.”

— John Milton

286. “Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!”

— John Milton

287. “With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.”

— John Milton

288. “But his doom 54: Reserv’d him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness’d huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:.”

— John Milton

289. “But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth’s end, Where the bow’d welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.”

— John Milton

290. “Tears such as angels weep.”

— John Milton

291. “So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov’d on, with difficulty and labour he.”

— John Milton

292. “It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”

— John Milton

293. “His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk’d with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.”

— John Milton

294. “Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.”

— John Milton

295. “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother’s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

— John Milton

296. “I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.”

— John Milton

297. “Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.”

— John Milton

298. “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.”

— John Milton

299. “Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.”

— John Milton

300. “Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.”

— John Milton