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John Dryden quotes (63) A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. John Dryden Category: 
All heiresses are beautiful. John Dryden Category:
All objects lose by too familiar a view. John Dryden Category:
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. John Dryden Category:
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. John Dryden Category:
And plenty makes us poor. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
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 Category:
Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden Category:
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. John Dryden Category:
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. John Dryden Category:
But love's a malady without a cure. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden Category:
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. John Dryden Category:
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. John Dryden Category:
Even victors are by victories undone. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
For they conquer who believe they can. John Dryden Category:
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. John Dryden Category:
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong. John Dryden Category:
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
God never made His work for man to mend. John Dryden Category:
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Category:
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:
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. John Dryden Category:
He who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden Category:
Honor is but an empty bubble. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. John Dryden Category:
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. John Dryden Category: Forgiveness
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. John Dryden Category:
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. John Dryden Category:
Love is love's reward. John Dryden Category: Love
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. John Dryden Category:
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. John Dryden Category:
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. John Dryden Category:
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. John Dryden Category:
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden Category:
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. John Dryden Category:
Repentance is but want of power to sin. John Dryden Category:
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. John Dryden Category:
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 Category:
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. John Dryden Category:
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. John Dryden Category:
Successful crimes alone are justified. John Dryden Category:
The first is the law, the last prerogative. John Dryden Category:
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. John Dryden Category:
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden Category:
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. John Dryden Category:
They that possess the prince possess the laws. John Dryden Category:
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. John Dryden Category:
To die is landing on some distant shore. John Dryden Category:
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. John Dryden Category:
War is the trade of Kings. John Dryden Category:
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden Category:
What passions cannot music raise or quell? John Dryden Category:
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. John Dryden Category:
Words are but pictures of our thoughts. John Dryden Category:
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. John Dryden Category:
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