All heiresses are beautiful.
- John Dryden Quote

All objects lose by too familiar a view.
- John Dryden Quote

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- John Dryden Quote

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.
- John Dryden Quote

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.
- John Dryden Quote

Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden Quote

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
- John Dryden Quote

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

But love's a malady without a cure.
- John Dryden Quote

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden Quote

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
- John Dryden Quote

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
- John Dryden Quote

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.
- John Dryden Quote

For they conquer who believe they can.
- John Dryden Quote

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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
- John Dryden Quote

God never made His work for man to mend.
- John Dryden Quote

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- John Dryden Quote

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.
- John Dryden Quote

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- John Dryden Quote

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
- John Dryden Quote

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- John Dryden Quote

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden Quote

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
- John Dryden Quote

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
- John Dryden Quote

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
- John Dryden Quote

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- John Dryden Quote

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

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
- John Dryden Quote

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
- John Dryden Quote

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!
- John Dryden Quote

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
- John Dryden Quote

The first is the law, the last prerogative.
- John Dryden Quote

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

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
- John Dryden Quote

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
- John Dryden Quote

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
- John Dryden Quote

War is the trade of Kings.
- John Dryden Quote

What passions cannot music raise or quell?
- John Dryden Quote

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

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
- John Dryden Quote