167 Famous Quotes by John Dryden
8/9/1631 - 5/12/1700
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Dryden, John
Glorious John
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About John Dryden
John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet Laureate in 1668.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Dreams
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325)
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There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
Insanity
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Spanish Friar (act II, st. 1)
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Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.
Lying
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Absalom and Achitophel
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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
Tenderness
Quotes, by John Dryden
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A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
Proverbs
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Absalom and Actitophel (pt. I, l. 545)
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Proverbs
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Conquest of Granada (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
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With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.
Gods
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 37)
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Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,
Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,
Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,
Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
Gods
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 1405)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Education
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Education
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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You know I met you,
Kist you, and prest you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Wives
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.
Poetry
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II,, l. 412), "Thick and Thin"
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For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
Friendship
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
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Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Goodness
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Juvenal (satire X)
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A horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Silence
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Silence
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: Astroea Redux (l. 7)
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
Heaven
Quotes, by John Dryden , Source: The Spanish Friar (act V, sc. 2)
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