John Dryden Quotes

When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky. - John Dryden

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day. - John Dryden

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. - John Dryden

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. - John Dryden

Whatever is, is in its causes just. - John Dryden

What passions cannot music raise or quell? - John Dryden

Well may they boast themselves an ancient Nation; For they were bred e'er manners were in fashion. - John Dryden

Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth. - John Dryden

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; / Honour but an empty bubble; / Never ending, still beginning, / Fighting still, and still destroying. / If all the world be worth thy winning, / Think, oh think, it worth enjoying. - John Dryden

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