John Dryden Quotes - Page 13

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

  John Dryden

  Men, Heaven, Lucky

  John Dryden (1993). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  John Dryden

  Law, Political, Politics

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• But how can finite grasp Infinity?

  John Dryden

  Infinity, Finite

  John Dryden (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.20

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• But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

  John Dryden

  Leadership, Thinking, Literature

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 533

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• Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

  John Dryden

  Flow, Domes, Fit

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.219, Pearson Education

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• He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

  John Dryden

  Victory, Would Be, Poet

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Ben Jonson

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• An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Silence, Ears

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• Hushed as midnight silence.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Midnight

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.42

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• Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

  John Dryden

  Greek, Bitter, Satire

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• Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Fame, Sped

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works ; Now First Collected, with Notes and Illustrations”, p.226

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• Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

  John Dryden

  Rocks, Sculpture, Natural

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• The winds are out of breath.

  John Dryden

  Wind, Breaths

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• If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

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• Virtue is her own reward.

  John Dryden

  Rewards, Virtue

  "Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr". Tragedy by John Dryden (Act III, Scene 1), 1670.

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• None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

  John Dryden

  Knaves, Fool, Busy

  John Dryden, “The Medal”

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• All heiresses are beautiful.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Beautiful, Cynical

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”

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• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Rags, Arms

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fate, Decay

  'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

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• The bravest men are subject most to chance.

  John Dryden

  Men, Bravery, Chance

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden,: now first collected in eighteen volumes”, p.42

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• Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

  John Dryden

  Vices, Kind, Satire

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• 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

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• The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

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• Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

  John Dryden

  Men, Virtue, Crime

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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