Quotes about John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath...

#John Dryden

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

#John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

#John Dryden

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -...

#John Dryden

Honor is but an empty bubble.

#John Dryden

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

#John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

#John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

#John Dryden

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from...

#John Dryden

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

#John Dryden

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

#John Dryden

For they conquer who believe they can.

#John Dryden