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

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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.
    Source: 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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