Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

According to her cloth she cut her coat.
Topic: Prudence
Author: John Dryden
For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
Topic: Public
Author: John Dryden
And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
Topic: Royalty
Author: John Dryden
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
Topic: Scripture
Author: John Dryden
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
Topic: Secrecy
Author: John Dryden
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Topic: Sense
Author: John Dryden
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: John Dryden
A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Topic: Silence
Author: John Dryden
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Topic: Silence
Author: John Dryden
At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note, It seemed the music melted in the throat.
Topic: Singing
Author: John Dryden
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
Topic: Shame
Author: John Dryden
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Topic: Songs
Author: John Dryden
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Topic: Soul
Author: John Dryden
Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.
Topic: Soul
Author: John Dryden
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
Topic: Stupidity
Author: John Dryden
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Topic: Stupidity
Author: John Dryden
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.
Topic: Stupidity
Author: John Dryden
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
Topic: Sun
Author: John Dryden
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
Topic: Sun
Author: John Dryden
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
Topic: Sun
Author: John Dryden
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