Best John Dryden Sayings
- Or hast thou known the world so long in vain? Birthday
- What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or… Age
- Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. Flight
- Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. Art
- All delays are dangerous in war. All
- All objects lose by too familiar a view. All
- And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. Frailty
- What passion cannot music raise and quell! Cannot Music
- We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. Beat
- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. All
- 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… Hoi Polloi
- Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's… Action
- Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair. Brave
- And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the… All
- He made all countries where he came his own. All
- Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Commonwealth
- Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. Cost
- I never saw any good that came of telling truth. Any
- Men are but children of a larger growth. Children
- Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. Authors
- Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Child
- For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. Children
- Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Been
- Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes… Congratulate
- Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. Bankrupt
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