Quote

If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

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
Good
Gods
Think
Provide
Thinking
Lovely
World
Thee
Worth
Winning
Sits
Enjoy
Beside
Take
Enjoying

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Image
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
John Dryden
Image
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Image
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
John Dryden
Image
He made all countries where he came his own.
John Dryden
Image
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
John Dryden
Image
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
John Dryden
Image
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.
John Dryden
Image
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Image
As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
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
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
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
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
John Dryden
Image
My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
John Dryden
Image
Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.
John Dryden
Image
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.
John Dryden
Image
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden