black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

John Dryden

If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN

Talk Thinking
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Love Part Worst
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN

Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
JOHN DRYDEN

Best Give Up Knowledge Nature Production True
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
JOHN DRYDEN

Friendship Tears
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN

Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN

Pain Pleasure Sweet
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Conquer
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
JOHN DRYDEN

Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN

Beautiful One Liner

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Dryden Quotes