John Dryden Quotes

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

Fortune befriends the bold.

An horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear.

All things are hush'd, as Nature's self lay dead,Even Lust and Envy sleep.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unités, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

Their heavenly harps a lower strain began, and in soft music mourn the fall of man.

And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, And music more melodious than the spheres.

[Music] is inarticulate poesy.