Quotes about John Dryden

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

#John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

#John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

#John Dryden

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

#John Dryden

Successful crimes alone are justified.

#John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

#John Dryden

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

#John Dryden

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

#John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

#John Dryden

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

#John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

#John Dryden

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

#John Dryden