Dryden Quotes

Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail:/ But common interest always will prevail. - John Dryden

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. - John Dryden

You never want to give a fan a chance to find out whether it was passion or habit. I think for the great majority it's still a passion, but others have discovered that maybe it was something else. And so, as much as this can be problematic in the U.S. and that's where it's usually talked about, I think it's also a problem in this country. - Ken Dryden

Words are but pictures of our thoughts. - John Dryden

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. - John Dryden

Witness ye days and nights, and all ye hours, / That danced away with down upon your feet. - John Dryden

With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres. - John Dryden

Wit will shine / Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. - John Dryden

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. - John Dryden