718 Quotes by John Dryden

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.