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165 Quotes for 'John Dryden' in the Database.

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Topic: Ability
Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 160)
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Topic: Anger
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Topic: Anger
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Hind and the Panther
The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]
Topic: Appearance
Source: Hind and the Panther
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Cleomenes (act IV, sc. 1)
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Topic: Argument
Source: Amphitryon (act I, sc. 1)
Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
Topic: Ballads
Source: Prologue to Sophonisba
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Topic: Beauty
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 1)
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Topic: Beauty
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 41)
Fortune befriends the bold.
Topic: Boldness
Source: None
The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned). The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.
Topic: Bravery
Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 1)
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
Topic: Bravery
Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?
Topic: Business
Source: Persius (sat. V, l. 204)
He's a sure card.
Topic: Cards
Source: The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 2)
Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
For they conquer who believe they can.
Topic: Confidence
Source: None
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Topic: Contentment
Source: None
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Fourth Satire of Persius (l. 58)
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Topic: Courage
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Dedication of translations from Ovid
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Prologue to Conquest of Granada
All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Prologue to Rival Queens
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 982)
Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Topic: Democracy
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Religio Laici (l. 445)
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Open every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
Topic: Doves
Source: To Her Grace of Ormond (l. 70)
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Topic: Dreams
Source: Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325)
Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
Topic: Duty
Source: Eleonora (l. 178)
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Topic: Duty
Source: To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer"
The true Amphitryon.
Topic: Eating
Source: Amphitryon (act IV, sc. 1)
By education most have been misled.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Topic: Education
Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Topic: England
Source: Astroea Redux (l. 117)
This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.
Topic: Epitaphs
Source: Dedication of the Aeneid (XIV, 149)
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Topic: Errors
Source: All for Love (prologue)
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
Topic: Faith
Source: The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 141)
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Topic: Familiarity
Source: None
All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Topic: Fate
Source: Mac Flecknoe (l. 1)

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