718 Quotes by John Dryden

Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

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

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bonds divide.

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