John Dryden Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Men, Devil

  John Dryden (1701). “Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors”, p.10

• Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

  John Dryden

  God, Devil, Usual

• But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Hands, Pimp

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.79-81.

• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Women, Hunting, Design

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

• To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

  John Dryden

  Evil, Common, Nonsense

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.334

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