If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDENGo miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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 -
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN -
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN -
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN -
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
JOHN DRYDEN -
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN -
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
JOHN DRYDEN -
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
JOHN DRYDEN