John Dryden Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• For they can conquer who believe they can.

  John Dryden

  Confidence, Believe, Literature

  "The Works of Virgil".

• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

• Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

  John Dryden

  Reality, Literature, Our Thoughts

• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Grace, Literature

• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Needs, Literature

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Madness, Wit

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

• But love's a malady without a cure.

  John Dryden

  Love, Literature, Cures

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Life Lesson, Learning

• But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

  John Dryden

  Leadership, Thinking, Literature

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 533

• Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

  John Dryden

  Betrayal, Ice, Way

• All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fate, Decay

  'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

  John Dryden

  Forgiveness, Doe, Done

  'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 1, sc. 2

• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

  John Dryden

  Birthday, Strong, Age

• All objects lose by too familiar a view.

  John Dryden

  Views, Literature, Familiar

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2336, Delphi Classics

• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

  John Dryden

  Literature, Slave

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 2, l. 285

• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Law, Literature, Lasts

• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

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