Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Paradise Lost.
Fate and Free Will Quotes
"Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve Got them new names, till wand'ring o'er the earth Through God's high suff'rance for the trial of man" (1.364-6).
Sin Quotes
"Farewell happy fields Where Joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail Infernal world" (1.249-51).
Pride Quotes
"How such united force of gods, how such As stood like these, could ever know repulse?" (1.629-30)
Innocence Quotes
"Flours of all hue, and without thorn the rose" (4.256)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
"Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixèd anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side, under t...
Revenge Quotes
"and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy shown On Man by him seduced, but on himself Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance poured" (1....
Language and Communication Quotes
"If once they hear that voice, (their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers […] they will soon resume New courage and revive" (1.274-5; 278-9)
Sex Quotes
"Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing Becam'st enamoured, and such joy thou took'st With me in secret, that my womb conceived A growing burden" (2.764-7)