But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN
Related Topics
Treason
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN -
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
JOHN DRYDEN -
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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 -
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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 -
Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Hushed as midnight silence.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All authors to their own defects are blind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN