718 Quotes by John Dryden

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass’d.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.

It’s a hard world, neighbors, if a man’s oath must be his master.

I am reading Jonson’s verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...

Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace.

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex’d with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy’d his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov’d himself, needs only to be known.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

Jealousy’s a proof of love, But ’tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.