John Dryden Quotes

"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."
- John Dryden
(Related: World)

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
- John Dryden
(Related: Forgiveness, Wrong)

"The first is the law, the last prerogative."
- John Dryden
(Related: First, Law)

"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
- John Dryden
(Related: Being, Pleasure)

"Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres."
- John Dryden
(Related: Body, Shame, Spirit)

"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!"
- John Dryden
(Related: Fate, Future, Joy)

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
- John Dryden
(Related: Now, Will)

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."
- John Dryden
(Related: Power, Repentance, Sin, Want)

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
- John Dryden
(Related: Age, Reason, Youth)

"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love)

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."
- John Dryden
(Related: Happiness, Thoughts, Care, Man, May)

"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool."
- John Dryden
(Related: Fool)

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Fool)

"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
- John Dryden
(Related: Son, Man, Will)

"Love is love's reward."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Reward)

"They that possess the prince possess the laws."
- John Dryden
(Related: Laws)

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Virtue, End, Goodness, Grace, Will)

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
- John Dryden
(Related: Soul, Jealousy)

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."
- John Dryden
(Related: Events, Fortune, Madness, Nothing, Prudence)

"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
- John Dryden
(Related: Brooks, Habits, Rivers)

"If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."
- John Dryden
(Related: Words)

"Honor is but an empty bubble."
- John Dryden
(Related: Honor)

"He who would search for pearls must dive below."
- John Dryden
(Related: Pearls)

"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
- John Dryden
(Related: Life, Fear, Day, First)

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Man, Today, Tomorrow)

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
- John Dryden
(Related: Madness)

"God never made His work for man to mend."
- John Dryden
(Related: Work, God, Man)

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Money, Son, Soul, May, Miser, Trade)

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
- John Dryden
(Related: Genius)

"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Choice, Fate)

"And plenty makes us poor."
- John Dryden
(Related: Poor)

"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."
- John Dryden
(Related: Truth, Needs)

"For they conquer who believe they can."
- John Dryden

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Fool, Now)

"Even victors are by victories undone."
- John Dryden

"Either be wholly slaves or wholly free."
- John Dryden

"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where."
- John Dryden
(Related: Death, Fear, Nothing)

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
- John Dryden
(Related: Poetry, Dancing)

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Education, Man)

"But love's a malady without a cure."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Cure)

"But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much."
- John Dryden
(Related: Talk)

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."
- John Dryden
(Related: Fear, Boldness)

"Beware the fury of a patient man."
- John Dryden
(Related: Man)

"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."
- John Dryden
(Related: Anger)

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Anger, Thoughts, Mind, Resentment, Will)

"Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."
- John Dryden
(Related: Nature, Law, Self)

"And love's the noblest frailty of the mind."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Mind)

"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
- John Dryden
(Related: Fate)

"All objects lose by too familiar a view."
- John Dryden

"All heiresses are beautiful."
- John Dryden

"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."
- John Dryden
(Related: Argument, Word)

"You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Sight, Water)

"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."
- John Dryden
(Related: Thoughts, Words)

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
- John Dryden
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Deceit)

"What passions cannot music raise or quell?"
- John Dryden
(Related: Music)

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
- John Dryden
(Related: First, Habits)

"War is the trade of Kings."
- John Dryden
(Related: War, Kings, Trade)

"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."
- John Dryden
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)

"To die is landing on some distant shore."
- John Dryden

"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."
- John Dryden
(Related: Beauty)

"Successful crimes alone are justified."
- John Dryden
(Related: Successful)