John Dryden Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

  John Dryden

  Evil, May, Valiant

  John Dryden (1976). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon”, p.248, Univ of California Press

• To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

  John Dryden

  Evil, Common, Nonsense

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.334

• Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

  John Dryden

  Truth, Lying, Evil

  John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

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