John Dryden Quotes about Lying

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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.

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

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Dryden

Lying, Cutting, Thinking

John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.241

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

John Dryden

Sex, Lying, Wife

John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

John Dryden

Children, Lying, Believe

'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

John Dryden

Lying, Grief, Eye

John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.86

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

John Dryden

Life, Running, Lying

'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1