"You see through love, and that deludes your……" — John Dryden
"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."
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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 Crooked Quotes
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one of 228 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their…
— Erma Bombeck
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees…
— Chanakya
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
— Black Elk
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with…
— George Carlin
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
— Alfred the Great
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Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first.…
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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