John Dryden on conversation
John Dryden239 quotes · See all“Repartee is the soul of conversation.”
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
John DrydenJohn Dryden O freedom, first delight of human kind!
John DrydenJohn Dryden What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John DrydenJohn Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The winds are out of breath.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Politicians neither love nor hate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John DrydenJohn Dryden As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
John DrydenJohn Dryden 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 DrydenJohn Dryden Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
John DrydenJohn Dryden More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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