Quotes By John Dryden

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

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

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.

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.

War is the trade of Kings.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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.

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

And plenty makes us poor.

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.

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

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

All heiresses are beautiful.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

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.