81 Quotations by John Dryden
- 1. A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

- 2. All heiresses are beautiful.

- 3. All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

- 4. All objects lose by too familiar a view.

- 5. And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

- 6. Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

- 7. Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

- 8. Beware of the fury of the patient man.

- 9. Beware the fury of a patient man.

- 10. Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

- 11. But far more numerous was the herd of such,
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- 12. By education most have been misled; So the believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues ...

- 13. Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
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- 14. Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

- 15. Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

- 16. Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he m ...

- 17. For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

- 18. For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.

- 19. Fortune befriends the bold.

- 20. Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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