"I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory……" — John Dryden
"I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric..."
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335 Quotes by John Dryden
John Dryden has 335 quotes on this site.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Not to ask is not be denied.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure,…
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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All heiresses are beautiful.
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More Insolent Quotes
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one of 41 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
— Brigitte Bardot
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary,…
— Edward Abbey
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Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of…
— Thomas Paine
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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due…
— Phil Robertson
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The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and…
— George Downame
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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
— Aristotle
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All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and…
— Samuel Johnson
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