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.

[Music] is inarticulate poesy.

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.