Literature Quote by John Dryden Download Open image ““Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind”” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Literature Plays Psychology
“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation. When it became noon, and… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Let us arise and go now to the Isle of Manisfree and live the true blue simple life of wisdom and wonderment where all… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man’s foot which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst… — Hella S. Haasse Copy Share Image
“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate… — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...” — Mykyta Isagulov Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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