John Dryden

John Dryden

23 quotes

Known primarily as an English poet and playwright, John Dryden also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. John Dryden's observations on Love are as sharp as their thoughts on Fear, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 26 of John Dryden's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Love, Fear, Alone, Anger, and War. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

“Successful crimes alone are justified.”

— John Dryden

Alone

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“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”

— John Dryden

Jealousy

“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

Anger

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

— John Dryden

Forgiveness

“By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.”

— John Dryden

Education

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

— John Dryden

Hope

“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

Future

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

— John Dryden

Age

“War is the trade of Kings.”

— John Dryden

War

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

— John Dryden

Love

“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

Alone

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

— John Dryden

Anger

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

— John Dryden

Death

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

— John Dryden

Love

“Love is love's reward.”

— John Dryden

Love

“Successful crimes alone are justified.”

— John Dryden

Alone

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

— John Dryden

Poetry

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

— John Dryden

Truth

“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.”

— John Dryden

Money

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

— John Dryden

Patience

“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

— John Dryden

Fear