John Dryden Quotes

• 

  Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Dance

• Love is love’s reward.

  John Dryden

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Reward

• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age

  John Dryden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absence

• You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

  John Dryden

• Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

  John Dryden

• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

• War is the trade of Kings.

  John Dryden

• Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

  John Dryden

• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

• Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

  John Dryden

• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  John Dryden

• There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

  John Dryden

• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

• Successful crimes alone are justified.

  John Dryden

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

  John Dryden

• Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.

  John Dryden

• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

John Dryden (201)

Birth:	9th August, 1631
Death:	1st May, 1700
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Poet

About

John Dryden was born in Aldwincle, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, England. He was an English poet, literary critic and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He earned a BA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1654. He wrote several poems include: Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, The Medall, MacFlecknoe, The Hind and the Panther, Eleonora, and Fables Ancient and Modern. He wrote several plays include: The Wild Gallant, The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, Tyrannick Love, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Marriage A-la-Mode, Aureng-Zebe, All for Love, Oedipus, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon, and Love Triumphant.

Related Authors

• Mary Zimmerman
• Emilio Carballido
• Christopher Isherwood
• Suzan-Lori Parks
• J. B. Priestley
• J. P. Donleavy
• Edna O'Brien
• George S. Kaufman
• John Marston
• Joe Orton

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 25th November

Births

• 1924 - Paul Desmond
• 1978 - Joseph Lancaster
• 1936 - William McIlvanney
• 1870 - Maurice Denis
• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet

Deaths

• 2002 - Karel Reisz
• 1973 - Laurence Harvey
• 1974 - U Thant
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima
• 1998 - Nelson Goodman