John Dryden Quotes
My next desire is, void of care and strife,To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:A country cottage near a crystal flood,A winding valley, and a lofty wood.
John Dryden
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Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.
John Dryden
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
John Dryden
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyesAnd gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
John Dryden
Madam me no madam.
John Dryden
In friendship false, implacable in hate,Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
John Dryden
Here lies my wife:here let her lie!Now she's at rest, and so am I.
John Dryden
Endure the hardships of your present state,Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
John Dryden
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
John Dryden
The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.
John Dryden
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth exposed he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.
John Dryden
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden
