John Dryden Quotes about Judging

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When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

John Dryden

Men, Long, Judging

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

John Dryden

Judging, Interest, Settings

Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.110

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

John Dryden

Judging, Criticism, Delight

John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press