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Famous John Dryden Quotes
“He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.”
“A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
“The bravest men are subject most to chance.”
“When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.”
“It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.”
“Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.”
“Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.”
“Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.”
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.”
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!”
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”
“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”