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John Dryden quotes (39) None but the brave deserves the fair. John Dryden Category: Brave A knock-down argument: t is but a word and a blow. John Dryden Category: Quarrels Whatever is is in its causes just. John Dryden Category: Justice Rich the treasure Sweet the pleasure Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden Category: Pleasure Three poets in three distant ages born Greece Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassd; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third she joind the former two. John Dryden Category: Poetry Parting is worse than death; it is death of love! John Dryden Category: Immortality It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events Because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by Prudence. John Dryden Category: Fortune What precious drops are those Which silently each others track pursue Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew? John Dryden Category: Unsorted Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Category: Gravity All delays are dangerous in war. John Dryden Category: War He trudgd along unknowing what he sought And whistled as he went for want of thought. John Dryden Category: Whistle I am devilishly afraid that's certain; but ... I'll sing that I may seem valiant. John Dryden Category: Afraid She knows her man and when you rant and swear Can draw you to her with a single hair. John Dryden Category: Hair Not is the peoples judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. John Dryden Category: People Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they neer pardon who have done the wrong. John Dryden Category: Forgive Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.... John Dryden Category: Error The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth that testified surprise. John Dryden Category: Fool Our souls sit close and silently within And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off our sense is such That spider-like we feel the tenderest touch. John Dryden Category: Eyes Bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease. John Dryden Category: Bank Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it pursue. John Dryden Category: Good Learn to write well or not to write at all. John Dryden Category: Writing 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 Category: Happiness Love reckons hours for months and days for years; And every little absence is an age. John Dryden Category: Absent Ill habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas. John Dryden Category: Vice Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. John Dryden Category: Better So softly death succeeded life in her She did but dream of heaven and she was there. John Dryden Category: Death Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden Category: Anger Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what we know not where. John Dryden Category: If Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is law the last prerogative. John Dryden Category: Reason Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. John Dryden Category: Love Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden Category: Cynic God never made His work for man to mend. John Dryden Category: God There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. John Dryden Category: Insanity When he spoke what tender words he used! So softly that like flakes of feathered snow They melted as they fell. John Dryden Category: Speak Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest and so am I. John Dryden Category: Marriage And virtue though in rags will keep me warm. John Dryden Category: Virtue When I consider life tis all a cheat: Yet fooled with hope men favor the deceit. John Dryden Category: Tomorrow Youth beauty graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own. John Dryden Category: Interest Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. John Dryden Category: Health |
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