John Dryden Quotes

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

Even victors are by victories undone.

My love's a noble madness.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

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