| 167 Famous Quotes by John Dryden
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“Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.”
Opinion Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (I, 545)
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“I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.”
Freedom Quotes Source: Conquest of Granada (act I, sc. 1)
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“And nobler is a limited command,
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.”
Love of country Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 299)
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“He made all countries where he came his own.”
Love of country Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 76)
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“Such subtle covenants shall be made,
Till peace itself is war in masquerade.”
Peace Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitopel (pt. I, l. 752; pt. II, l. 268)
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“At home the hateful names of parties cease,
And factious souls are wearied into peace.”
Peace Quotes Source: Astroea Redux (l. 312)
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“All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther
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“The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]”
Appearance Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther
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“All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
Fate Quotes Source: Mac Flecknoe (l. 1)
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“'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.”
Fate Quotes Source: Works (vol. XV, p. 103)
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“Ill fortune seldom comes alone.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 592)
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“Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1)
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“And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere
Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire
In all things which our needful faith require.”
Scripture Quotes Source: Religio Laici (l. 297)
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“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.”
Errors Quotes Source: All for Love (prologue)
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“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.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 1)
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“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.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
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“And all at Worcester but the honour lost.”
Honor Quotes Source: Astraea Redux
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“According to her cloth she cut her coat.”
Prudence Quotes Source: Fables--Cock and Fox (l. 20)
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“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”
Providence Quotes Source: Oedipus (act III, sc. 1)
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“Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.”
Youth Quotes Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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“The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
no longer belong to it.”
Youth Quotes Source: Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1)
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
Anger Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
Anger Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005)
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“And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.”
Inheritance Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 169)
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“The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,
And horrow heavy sat on every mind.”
Fear Quotes Source: Theodore and Honoria (l. 336)
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