Famous Sir John Denham Quotations

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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
by Sir John Denham
"Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst."
by Sir John Denham
"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."
by Sir John Denham
"We are never like angels till our passion dies."
by Sir John Denham
"Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation."
by Sir John Denham
"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know."
by Sir John Denham


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