Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
JOHN DRYDENThere’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN -
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
JOHN DRYDEN -
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
JOHN DRYDEN