Milton Quotes

And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

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.

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.

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.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

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.

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.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.