He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDENAll delays are dangerous in war.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN -
And plenty makes us poor.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN -
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
JOHN DRYDEN -
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
JOHN DRYDEN -
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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 -
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN