John Dryden Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sin, Danger

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.388, Pearson Education

• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

  Power, Want, Sin

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

• For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
  Of man is made against Omnipotence,
  Some price that bears proportion must be paid,
  And infinite with infinite be weighed.

  John Dryden

  Men, Omnipotence, Bears

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.194

• Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

  John Dryden

  Greatness, Desire, Sin

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.232

• Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

  John Dryden

  Eden, Paradise, Sin

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

• In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

• 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.

• Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

  John Dryden

  Loss, Vices, Sin

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (1995). “The Poems of John Dryden: 1693-1696”, p.163, Pearson Education

• A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
  And made her man his paradise forego,
  Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been
  As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

  John Dryden

  Women, Heart, Sorrow

  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.243

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