John Dryden: Trending quotes

John Dryden trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection

John Dryden: 392 quotes21 likes

“Whatever is, is in its causes just.”

Act III, scene i.
Œdipus (1679)

“Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our fore-fathers and great-grandames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days; their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are call'd by other names than those of Monks and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns: for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)

“When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.
Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.
To-morrow 's falser than the former day;
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.”

John Dryden Aureng-zebe

Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.

“Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.”

John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 781–782.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

“I well believe, thou wouldst be great as he;
For every man's a fool to that degree:
All wish the dire prerogative to kill;
Ev'n they would have the power who want the will.”

Juvenal, Satire X (1693), lines 156–159.

“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”

Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.”

Aeneis, Book VI, line 512.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

“Look round the habitable world: how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”

Juvenal, Satire X (1693), lines 1–2.

“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”

John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.

“He's a sure card.”

Act II, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)

“As sure as a gun.”

Act III, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)

“Lord of humankind.”

Act II, scene 1.
The Spanish Friar (1681)

“Love is love's reward. ”

“A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

“There are so few who have all the talents requisite for translation and… there is so little encouragement for so considerable part of learning.”