John Dryden Quotes

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

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

John Dryden

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

But love's a malady without a cure.

John Dryden

And plenty makes us poor.

John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden