John Dryden Quotes
An influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright.
(1631 - 1700)
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A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.
[Retirement]
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A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
[Dancing]
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A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
[Mind]
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue - I mean good nature - are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and the staff of life.
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All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
[Habit]
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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All things are by fate, but poor blind man sees but a part of the chain, the nearest link, his eyes not reaching to that equal beam which poises all above.
[Fate]
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
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And plenty makes us poor.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
[Anger]
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Base rivals, who true wit and merit hate, maliciously aspire to gain renown, by standing up, and pulling others down.
[Envy]
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
[Beauty]
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Bets, at the first, were fool-traps, where the wise, like spiders, lay in ambush for the flies.
[Gambling]
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Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
[Temptation]
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
[Anger]
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