Inspirational Quotes by John Dryden · Page 3

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

— John Dryden

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

— John Dryden

Music is inarticulate poesy.

— John Dryden

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

— John Dryden

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

— John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

— John Dryden

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

— John Dryden

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

— John Dryden

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

— John Dryden

Not to ask is not be denied.

— John Dryden

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

— John Dryden

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things…

— John Dryden

Love either finds equality or makes it.

— John Dryden

The greater part performed achieves the less.

— John Dryden

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

— John Dryden

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

— John Dryden

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

— John Dryden

They say everything in the world is good for something.

— John Dryden

My love's a noble madness.

— John Dryden

All delays are dangerous in war.

— John Dryden