Quotes By 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.

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.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

All heiresses are beautiful.

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

Love is love's reward.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

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

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.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.