Famous Quotes by John Dryden
- A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.
Stiff in... More
- Nor is the people’s judgement always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. More
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. More
- And all to leave what with his toil he won
To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. More
- Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. More
- So over violent, or over civil
That every man with him was God or Devil. More
- Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. More
- Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law. More
- Beware the fury of a patient man. More
- Great Wits are sure to Madness near alli’d
And thin Partitions do their Bounds... More
- But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
The careful Devil is still at hand with... More
- Nor let his Love enchant your generous Mind;
‘Tis Natures trick to propagate her... More
- Oh that my Pow’r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my... More
- Railing in other men may be a crime,
But ought to pass for mere instinct in him:
Instinct... More
- But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
He never was a poet of God’s... More
- Resolv’d to ruin or to rule the state. More
- All heiresses are beautiful. More
- Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure. More
- Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave
None but the brave
None but the brave... More
- Softly sweet in Lydian measures
Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.
‘War’, he... More
- Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;
Rich the treasure;
Sweet the pleasure;
Sweet is... More
- Thou strong seducer, Opportunity! More
- The Legend of Love no Couple can find
So easie to part, or so equally join’d. More
- Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings
I bore this wren, till I was tired with... More
- For while my former flames remain within,
Repentance is but want of power to sin. More
- War is the trade of Kings. More
- Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail
Our lion now will foreign foes assail. More
- But he has now another taste of Wit;
And, to confess a truth (though out of time,)
Grows... More
- Nature meant me
A wife, a silly harmless household Dove,
Fond without art; and kind... More
- Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. More
- Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And... More
- Since every man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal... More
- Like pilgrims to th’appointed place we tend;
The world’s an inn, and death the... More
- Even victors are by victories undone. More
- ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty. More
- Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within,... More
- Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first... More
- All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. More
- The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,
But Shadwell never deviates into sense. More
- The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion... More
- Here stopped the good old sire, and wept for joy
In silent raptures of the hopeful... More
- High on a throne of his own labors reared.
At his right hand our young Ascanius... More
- We lov’d, and we lov’d, as long as we could,
Till our love was lov’d out in us... More
- Thus intranc’d they did lie,
Till Alexis did try
To recover new breath, that again he... More
- He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most... More
- He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. More
- Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying. More
- Like pilgrims to th’ appointed place we tend;
The world’s an inn, and death the... More
- Since ev’ry man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With... More
- Repentance is but want of power to sin. More
- This good had full as bad a Consequence:
The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,
Which... More
- For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
Of man is made against... More
- Then for the Style; Majestick and Divine,
It speaks no less than God in every... More
- That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir’d,)
By Nature did what was by Law... More
- More Safe, and much more modest ‘tis, to say
God wou’d not leave Mankind without a... More
- Thus have I made my own opinions clear;
Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear:
And... More
- From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony
This universal Frame began:
From Harmony to... More
- So, when the last and dreadful Hour
This crumbling Pageant shall devour,
The TRUMPET... More
- The soft complaining FLUTE
In dying Notes discovers
The Woes of hopeless... More
- For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good. More
- Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. More
- For all have not the gift of martyrdom. More
- Successful crimes alone are justified. More
- Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire;
The World is past its Infant Age:
Arms and... More
- Calms appear, when Storms are past;
Love will have his Hour at last:
Nature is my kindly... More
- Your love by ours we measure
Till we have lost our treasure,
But dying is a... More
- But what we gain’d in Skill we lost in Strength.
Our Builders were with Want of Genius... More
- Yet this I Prophesie; Thou shalt be seen,
(Tho’ with some short Parenthesis... More
- Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse,
In no ignoble verse;
But such as thy own... More
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