[ john dryden Quotes ]



Showing search results for John Dryden Quotes - 54 quotations by John Dryden - Dictionary Quotes
54 quotes (Page 1 of 3 pages)


All heiresses are beautiful.
Inheritance
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 716 votes

All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Death and Dying
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 805 votes

All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Familiarity
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 700 votes

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Fate
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 825 votes

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
Decisions
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 712 votes

Beware the fury of a patient man.
Patience
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 732 votes

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
Army and Navy
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 822 votes

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
Thoughts and Thinking
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 651 votes

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
Conformity
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 653 votes

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
Joy
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 792 votes

For they conquer who believe they can.
Confidence
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 585 votes

Fortune befriends the bold.
Boldness
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 678 votes

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 655 votes

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Genius
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 709 votes

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Fear
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 727 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 811 votes

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
Death and Dying
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 638 votes

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
Trust
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 757 votes

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Price
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 720 votes

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Habit
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 729 votes

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Jealousy
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 693 votes

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
Kings
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 835 votes

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Death and Dying
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 736 votes

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Vocation
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 694 votes

Love is love's reward.
Love
John Dryden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 469 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun