Quotes by John Dryden

"Repentance is but want of power to sin."

"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 liv'd today.”"

"Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few."

"There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!"

"Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

"For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage."

"Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."

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

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

"The poetry of the foot."

"None but the brave deserves the fair."

"Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence."

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

"War is the trade of Kings."

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

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

"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."

"But love's a malady without a cure."

"Love is love's reward."