John Dryden Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

• 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

• It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden

  Mistress, Events, Madness

  "The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author".

• My love's a noble madness.

  John Dryden

  Love, Noble, Madness

  'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

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