John Dryden Quotes

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Welcome, thou kind deceiver!
Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,
Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,
Even steal us from ourselves.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

Love is love's reward.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Order is the greatest grace

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

Where'e're I go, my Soul shall stay with thee:
'Tis but my Shadow I take away...

Night came, but unattended with repose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.

In God ’tis glory: And when men aspire,
’Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.