Paradise Quotes

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.