A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
JOHN DRYDENNo king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
JOHN DRYDEN -
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN -
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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 -
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All delays are dangerous in war.
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 -
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN -
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN -
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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