John Dryden Quotes
+2Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
- John Dryden
+1God never made his work for man to mend.
- John Dryden
+1Shad well alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity.
- John Dryden
+1Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden
+1There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
- John Dryden
+1If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- John Dryden
+1A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden
+1Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
- John Dryden
+1Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
+1Above any Greek or Roman name.
- John Dryden
+1What passion cannot music raise and quell!
- John Dryden
+1Who climbs the grammar tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
- John Dryden
+1For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
- John Dryden
+1His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- John Dryden
+1We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
+1If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
- John Dryden
+1Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
+1Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
- John Dryden
+1The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
- John Dryden
+1Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
+1All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
- John Dryden
+1Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden
+1The habit does not make the monk.
- John Dryden
+1Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
- John Dryden
+1All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- John Dryden