Quotes by John Dryden

"There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!"

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

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

"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."

"For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage."

"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."

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age."

"Love is love's reward."

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

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

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

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

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

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."

"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!"

"Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence."

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

"Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few."

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

"The poetry of the foot."

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

"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 liv'd today.”"

"None but the brave deserves the fair."

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."

"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."

"Successful crimes alone are justified."

"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."

"Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

"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."

"But love's a malady without a cure."

"Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."

"War is the trade of Kings."

"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."

"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."