Quotes By John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

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.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Love is love's reward.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

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.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

And plenty makes us poor.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

War is the trade of Kings.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.