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Quotes by John Dryden

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

John Dryden

They conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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 livd today.

John Dryden

For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lovd needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.

John Dryden

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

War is the trade of Kings.

John Dryden

But loves a malady without a cure.

John Dryden

Love is loves reward.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden