Paradise Quotes

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners in her hose.

James Cecil Dickens
- Up
- May
- Wife

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Scott Berg
- Time
- Great
- School
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

Janine di Giovanni
- Life
- Romantic
- Paradise
Oh, Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd - Man's forgiveness give - and take!

Omar Khayyam
- Earth
- Forgiveness
- Snake
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Victor Hugo
- Love
- Nature
- Soul
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Freedom
- Paradise
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Karl Popper
- Earth
- Promise
- Hell