John Milton Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

• When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

  John Milton

  Light, Envy, Shining

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.269, Oxford University Press, USA

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