John Dryden Quotes about Wit
John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
1668 Of Ben Jonson. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared'.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150
'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)