“Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.”
Filter quotes by topic
Famous John Dryden Quotes
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
“Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume X: Plays: The Tempest, Tyrannick Love, An Evening's Love
“Among our crimes oblivion may be set.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
Source: Dramatic works
“For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon