John Dryden People Quotations

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

God's pampered people whom, debauched with ease, / No king could govern, nor no God could please.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

The conscience of a people is their power.