“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – Satan
“Evil be thou my Good.” – Satan
“Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon; / The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: / They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way.” – Narrator
“For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return.” – Adam
“To be weak is miserable / Doing or suffering” – Satan
“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, / Farewell remorse!” – Satan
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man?” – Adam
“She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods!” – Satan
“Abashed the Devil stood / And felt how awful goodness is and saw / Virtue in her shape how lovely.” – Narrator
“Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.” – Satan
“Oft-times nothing profits more / Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right / Well managed.” – Adam
“Tis chastity, my brother, chastity: / She that has that is clad in complete steel.” – Raphael
“There is no fear in love; for perfect love casteth out fear.” – Eve
“So saying, her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she plucked, she ate!” – Narrator
“What if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?” – Adam QUOTES ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“In vain, against th’ Omnipotent they rise / In hearts of mightiest Chiefs thir surest Hopes / And come disfigur’d, thence on Faithfull side / Thir with that Army terrible […] As distant Distant Billow heaves his Travelled wave.” – Narrator
“With thee conversing I forget all time, / All seasons, and their change; all please alike.” – Adam
“Solitude sometimes is best society.” – Adam
“Who overcomes. By force hath overcome but half his foe.” – Michael
“Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unreproved, and leave No spot or blame behind.” – Narrator
“So saying, he / To wat’ry Nymph his step adds, and with speed / By Nymph pursued, and oft tho’ oft repulsed.” – Narrator
“Of Paradise found loss, occasioned / As here thou seest, by violent rape.” – God
“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life / Murmurs abroad.” – Narrator
“To endure / Exile or ignominy or bonds or pain.” – Satan
“Your words our favour will engage, / Live happy, and love both, without constraint.” – God
“Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill’d / All Heav’n, and in the blessed Spirits elect / Sense of new joy ineffable diffus’d.” – Narrator
“Thou, therefore, on these herbs, and fruits, and flowers, / Feed first” – Raphael
“Farewell happy fields / Where joy forever dwells: hail horrors, hail / Infernal world!” – Satan