John Milton — "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n."
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from John Milton
"For what more often than not is the cause of all our miseries, but the ill-matching of our desires, and the ill-governing of our affections?"
"For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?"
"License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that, must first be wise and good."
"For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license; which never hath more scope or more indulgence than under Tyrants."
"For what is more agreeable to the nature of man, than to be free?"
About John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet whose Paradise Lost (1667) is the canonical English epic, written while blind during the Restoration after his service to Cromwell's Commonwealth. Closely associated with Andrew Marvell (Commonwealth poet and friend who protected Milton at the Restoration). For an intellectual contrast, see King Charles II's Restoration court, the courtly, sexually-libertine, theater-reopened world of 1660s London — Milton wrote Paradise Lost as a defeated Republican; the Restoration culture around him celebrated everything his Commonwealth had banned. The cleanest 'losing side writes the masterpiece' moment in English literature — Paradise Lost's Satan is freighted with the political defeat of the regicides Milton served.