Famous Quotes

Quotes by John Dryden

• 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.
• 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.
• Beware the fury of a patient man.
• Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
• But love's a malady without a cure.
• 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.
• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
• Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
• For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
• 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.
• 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.
• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
• Love is love's reward.
• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
• Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
• Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
• 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!
• Successful crimes alone are justified.
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
• War is the trade of Kings.
• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.