Quotes by John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery...

#Beauty

All heiresses are beautiful

#Beauty

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

#Opportunity

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she...

#Death

None but the brave deserves the fair.

#Courage

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

#Confidence

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

#Confidence

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and...

#Genius

God never made his work for man to mend.

#God

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of...

#Mankind

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

#Nature

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

#John Dryden