John Dryden Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War is the trade of kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, War, President

  'King Arthur' (1691) act 2, sc. 2

• Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

  John Dryden

  Peace, War, Self

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

• Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, War, Fighting

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.17

• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

  John Dryden

  War, Son, Soul

• Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire;
  The World is past its Infant Age:
  Arms and Honour,
  Arms and Honour,
  Set the Martial Mind on Fire,
  And kindle Manly Rage.

  John Dryden

  War, Past, Fire

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

• War is a trade of kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, War, Trade

• All delays are dangerous in war.

  John Dryden

  War, Delay, Danger

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

• Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

  John Dryden

  Military, War, Hands

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.143

• War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

  John Dryden

  War, Wealth, Allure

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.253

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