John Dryden Quotes

Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.