John Milton Quotes

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

New Englanders continue to persecute each other for opinion's sake. Here [New York City] you enjoy extensive freedom—freedom in newspaper abuse; freedom to gamble in Wall Street; freedom in marriage; freedom in divorce; free lager; free fights; free voting; free love!

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Nothing shines out more than a bride in her most natural state.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

White for light. White for love. White for forever.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.