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