+ Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace. Author, October 27, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Fate, News, Swiftness, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Power, Secrecy, Trust, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Bravery, Happiness, Love, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Drama, Love, Society, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Pride – Lord of human kind Author, September 28, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Arrogance, Hubris, Superiority, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Art, Poetry, Trade, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Dryden, Permanence, Time, Writing, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
+ Secret guilt is by silence revealed. Author, August 10, 2023January 2, 2025, John Dryden, Guilt, Silence, 0 John Dryden Poet · England
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
The only reason that they say, ‘Women and children first’ is to test the strength of the lifeboats. Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
