John Dryden Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Lying, Wife

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

• Nature meant me
  A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
  Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Silly

  "All for Love".

• 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”

• A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

  John Dryden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  'On Settle'

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