Quote

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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
Taxed
Freely
Crimes
Virtues
Taxes
Crime
Virtue
Men
Commended

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.
John Dryden
Image
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
Image
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
John Dryden
Image
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden
Image
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
John Dryden
Image
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
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
The greater part performed achieves the less.
John Dryden
Image
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
John Dryden
Image
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
John Dryden
Image
Politicians neither love nor hate.
John Dryden
Image
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.
John Dryden
Image
Not to ask is not be denied.
John Dryden
Image
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
John Dryden
Image
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
John Dryden
Image
Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
John Dryden
Image
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
John Dryden
Image
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
John Dryden
Image
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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