John Dryden quotes

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

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

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

But love's a malady without a cure.

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

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

War is the trade of Kings.

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.

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

And plenty makes us poor.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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

Love is love's reward.

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.

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

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.

War is the trade of Kings.

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