Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENI saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Politicians neither love nor hate.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDEN -
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
JOHN DRYDEN






