Quote

Not to ask is not be denied.

John Dryden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Aldwincle
Northamptonshire
Denied
Silence
Asks

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
John Dryden
Image
How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.
John Dryden
Image
Silence in times of suffering is the best.
John Dryden
Image
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.
John Dryden
Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light but lucky men are favorites of heaven all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
John Dryden
Image
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
John Dryden
Image
All habits gather by unseen degrees.
John Dryden
Image
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
John Dryden
Image
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
John Dryden
Image
My right eye itches, some good luck is near.
John Dryden
Image
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
John Dryden
Image
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
John Dryden
Image
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
John Dryden
Image
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
John Dryden
Image
When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
John Dryden
Image
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
John Dryden
Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
John Dryden
Image
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.
John Dryden
Image
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
John Dryden
Image
Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.
John Dryden