All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
JOHN DRYDENNone but the brave deserve the fair.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN -
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For they can conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN -
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
JOHN DRYDEN -
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN -
They say everything in the world is good for something.
JOHN DRYDEN -
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN -
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDEN -
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
JOHN DRYDEN -
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
JOHN DRYDEN -
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
JOHN DRYDEN






