Quotes by John Dryden

John Dryden

John Dryden

English poet and playwright

Lived from: 1631 - 1700

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 august 1631 Died: 12 may 1700

  • It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
  • He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
  • So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
  • Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
  • Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
  • Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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  • He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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  • Beware the fury of a patient man.
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  • Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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  • All empire is no more than power in trust.
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  • All heiresses are beautiful.
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  • All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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  • All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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  • Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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  • Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Epilogue to Constantine the Great
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  • But love's a malady without cure.
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  • Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
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  • Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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  • Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
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  • Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
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  • For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
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  • For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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  • For they conquer who believe they can.
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  • Fortune befriends the bold.
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  • Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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  • Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Dryden?

The two most famous quotes from John Dryden are:

  • "He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
  • "Beware the fury of a patient man."

When did John Dryden live?

John Dryden was born in 1631 and died in the year 1700.