Inspirational Quotes by John Dryden

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

— John Dryden

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

— John Dryden

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

— John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.

— John Dryden

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

— John Dryden

Love either finds equality or makes it.

— John Dryden

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

— John Dryden

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

— John Dryden

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

— John Dryden

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

— John Dryden

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...

— 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

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed…

— John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth.

— John Dryden

By education most have been misled.

— John Dryden

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

— John Dryden

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.

— John Dryden

Possess your soul with patience.

— John Dryden

All delays are dangerous in war.

— John Dryden

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— John Dryden

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

— John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

— John Dryden

All empire is no more than power in trust.

— John Dryden

My love's a noble madness.

— John Dryden

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

— John Dryden

The wretched have no friends.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

— John Dryden

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

— John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

— John Dryden

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

— John Dryden

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

— John Dryden