Quote

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

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
Every
Rogue
Rogues
Inch
Inches
Fool
Character

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
John Dryden
Image
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
Image
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden
Image
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
John Dryden
Image
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
John Dryden
Image
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
John Dryden
Image
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
John Dryden
Image
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
John Dryden
Image
The wretched have no friends.
John Dryden
Image
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
John Dryden
Image
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
John Dryden
Image
All habits gather by unseen degrees.
John Dryden
Image
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
John Dryden
Image
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
John Dryden
Image
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
John Dryden
Image
…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden
Image
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
John Dryden
Image
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
John Dryden
Image
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
John Dryden
Image
Parting is worse than death it is death of love!
John Dryden