John Dryden Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

  John Dryden

  Change, Time, Children

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

• For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

  John Dryden

  Children, Secret, Tools

  'Sir Martin Mar-All' (1667) act 2, sc. 2

• Men are but children of a larger growth.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Growth

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

• Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Innocence

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.364, Pearson Education

• By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

  John Dryden

  Children, Lying, Believe

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

• Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

  John Dryden

  Children, Love Is, Broken

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.294, Univ of California Press

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