John Dryden Quotes - Page 1

• John Dryden / Poet

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

• John Dryden / Poet

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

• John Dryden / Poet

Love either finds equality or makes it.

• John Dryden / Poet

Merit challenges envy.

• John Dryden / Poet

Love is love's reward.

• John Dryden / Poet

Dead men tell no tales.

• John Dryden / Poet

War is a trade of kings.

• John Dryden / Poet

And plenty makes us poor.

• John Dryden / Poet

Virtue is her own reward.

• John Dryden / Poet

Pride - Lord of human kind

• John Dryden / Poet

My love's a noble madness.

• John Dryden / Poet

War is the trade of kings.

• John Dryden / Poet

Hushed as midnight silence.

• John Dryden / Poet

All heiresses are beautiful.

• John Dryden / Poet

Music is inarticulate poesy.

• John Dryden / Poet

Pity melts the mind to love.

• John Dryden / Poet

Not to ask is not be denied.

• John Dryden / Poet

Order is the greatest grace.

• John Dryden / Poet

The winds are out of breath.

• John Dryden / Poet

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

• John Dryden / Poet

The wretched have no friends.

• John Dryden / Poet

Honor is but an empty bubble.

• John Dryden / Poet

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

• John Dryden / Poet

Possess your soul with patience.

• John Dryden / Poet

All delays are dangerous in war.

• John Dryden / Poet

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

• John Dryden / Poet

Beware the fury of a patient man.

• John Dryden / Poet

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

• John Dryden / Poet

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

• John Dryden / Poet

There is a proud modesty in merit.

• John Dryden / Poet

Politicians neither love nor hate.

• John Dryden / Poet

But how can finite grasp Infinity?

• John Dryden / Poet

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

• John Dryden / Poet

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

• John Dryden / Poet

By education most have been misled.

• John Dryden / Poet

But love's a malady without a cure.

• John Dryden / Poet

Second thoughts, they say, are best.

• John Dryden / Poet

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

• John Dryden / Poet

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

• John Dryden / Poet

All habits gather by unseen degrees.

• John Dryden / Poet

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

• John Dryden / Poet

None but the brave deserve the fair.

• John Dryden / Poet

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

• John Dryden / Poet

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

• John Dryden / Poet

Take the good the gods provide thee.

• John Dryden / Poet

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

• John Dryden / Poet

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

• John Dryden / Poet

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

• John Dryden / Poet

Even victors are by victories undone.

• John Dryden / Poet

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.