Dryden

Famous quotes containing the word dryden:

    “Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
    The careful Devil is still at hand with means;
    And providently Pimps for ill desires:
    The Good Old Cause, reviv’d, a Plot requires,
    Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
    To raise up Common-wealths and ruine Kings.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “Men are but children of a larger growth,
    Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
    And full as craving too, and full as vain.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)