Sir John Denham

Sir John Denham (1615 - 10 March 1669), poet, son of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn in London.

6 Quotes

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
— Sir John Denham

We are never like angels till our passion dies.
— Sir John Denham

Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use
— Sir John Denham

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
— Sir John Denham

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
— Sir John Denham

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
— Sir John Denham