John Dryden Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

  John Dryden

  Philosophical, Learning, Math

  John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”

• not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Interest, Settings

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.110

• When a man's life is under debate,
  The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

  John Dryden

  Men, Long, Judging

• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Criticism, Delight

  John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press

• If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?

  John Dryden

  Party, Men, Order

  John Dryden (1797). “The fables, ornamented with engravings, (by) Lady Diana Beauclerc”, p.10

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