Quote

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

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
Vain
Sex
Grace
Perverse

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
Even victors are by victories undone.
John Dryden
Image
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
John Dryden
Image
Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.
John Dryden
Image
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
John Dryden
Image
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
John Dryden
Image
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
John Dryden
Image
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
John Dryden
Image
Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
John Dryden
Image
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.
John Dryden
Image
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
John Dryden
Image
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
John Dryden
Image
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
John Dryden
Image
They live too long who happiness outlive.
John Dryden
Image
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
Image
Even kings but play and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.
John Dryden
Image
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
John Dryden
Image
But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.
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
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
John Dryden
Image
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
John Dryden