Top 488 Quotes & Sayings by John Dryden
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Love is love's reward.
War is the trade of Kings.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
For they conquer who believe they can.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
God never made His work for man to mend.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
All heiresses are beautiful.
And plenty makes us poor.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Honor is but an empty bubble.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Even victors are by victories undone.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
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