Author Profile
John Dryden
1631 – 1700 • English • Poet
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesBy education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.— John Dryden
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.— John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.— John Dryden
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.— John Dryden
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.— 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
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.— John Dryden