John Milton Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

• The best apology against false accusers is silence.

  John Milton

  Apology, Silence, Accusers

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.97

• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Midnight

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

• Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Pace

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

  John Milton

  Air, Silence, Chamber

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 16

• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  John Milton

  Dark, Moon, Night

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

• Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

  John Milton

  Twilight, Bird, Silence

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Giving, Silence

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

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