List of John Dryden Quotes

The Elephant Is Never Won By Anger; Nor Must That Man Who Would Reclaim A Lion Take Him By The Teeth.

Or Hast Thou Known The World So Long In Vain?

He With A Graceful Pride, While His Rider Every Hand Survey'd, Sprung Loose, And Flew Into An Escapade; Not Moving Forward, Yet With Every Bound Pressing, And Seeming Still To Quit His Ground.

From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony. This Universal Frame Began.

The Good We Have Enjoyed From Heaven's Free Will, And Shall We Murmur To Endure The Ill?

A Satirical Poet Is The Check Of The Laymen On Bad Priests.

When Beauty Fires The Blood, How Love Exalts The Mind!

By Viewing Nature, Nature's Handmaid Art, Makes Mighty Things From Small Beginnings Grow: Thus Fishes First To Shipping Did Impart, Their Tail The Rudder, And Their Head The Prow.

He Who Trusts A Secret To His Servant Makes His Own Man His Master.

Genius Must Be Born, And Never Can Be Taught.

Secret Guilt By Silence Is Betrayed.

If You Are For A Merry Jaunt, I Will Try, For Once, Who Can Foot It Farthest.