John Dryden Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

  John Dryden

  May, Oblivion, Crime

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.26

• Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

  John Dryden

  Men, Virtue, Crime

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.231

• Successful crimes alone are justified.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Humor, Successful

  'The Medal' (1682) l. 207

• Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

  John Dryden

  Justice, May, Murder

  John Dryden, “The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest”

• Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Men, May

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.139

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