Quotes from John Dryden

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Even victors are by victories undone.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

They conquer who believe they can.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

By education most have been misled.