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Quotes from All for Love — John Dryden

1631–1700 England

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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.

All for Love (1678)

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

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A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day;
Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

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He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind;
Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.

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My heart's so full of joy,
That I shall do some wild extravagance
Of love in public, and the foolish world,
Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

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Give, you gods,
Give to your boy, your Caesar,
The rattle of a globe to play withal,
This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off;
I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

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Let those find fault whose wit's so very small,
They've need to show that they can think at all;
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

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The wretched have no friends.

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What flocks of critics hover here to-day,
As vultures wait on armies for their prey,
All gaping for the carcase of a play!
With croaking notes they bode some dire event,
And follow dying poets by the scent.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dryden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.