John Dryden Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• 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

• The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
  Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
  Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
  And made his torch their universal light.
  So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
  Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Light, Torches

  John Dryden, John Sargeaunt (1929). “The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes”

• Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Understanding, Enthusiasm

  John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

• We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Mean, Helping

  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.37

• I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Saws, Telling The Truth

  William Shakespeare, Mr. John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays”

• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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