57 Quotes by John Dryden
- Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
- Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
- Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
- The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
- Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
- Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
- Repentance is but want of power to sin.
- Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
- Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
- Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
- Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
- Love is love's reward.
- They that possess the prince possess the 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.
- Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
- Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
- Honor is but an empty bubble.
- He who would search for pearls must dive below.
- 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.
- Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- God never made His work for man to mend.
- 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.
- Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
- Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
- And plenty makes us poor.
- For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
- For they conquer who believe they can.
- 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.
- Even victors are by victories undone.
- Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
- Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
- Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- 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.
- But love's a malady without a cure.
- But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
- Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
- 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.
- Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
- And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
- All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- All objects lose by too familiar a view.
- All heiresses are beautiful.
- A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
- You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
- Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
- What passions cannot music raise or quell?
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- War is the trade of Kings.
- Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
- To die is landing on some distant shore.
- 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.
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