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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  • 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.
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  • Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
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  • To die is landing on some distant shore.
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  • Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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  • War is the trade of Kings.
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  • War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
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  • We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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  • What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
    A Song for Cecilia's Day (1687)
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  • When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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  • Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
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  • All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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