Milton Quotes
The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
Danny Aiello
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
Marlo Thomas
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
Yoweri Museveni
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire
Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.
Jerry Lewis
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
Ed McMahon
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Charles Stuart Calverley
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Voltaire
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Harold Bloom