John Dryden
54 quotations
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
Not to ask is not be denied.
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
War is the trade of Kings.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
For they conquer who believe they can.
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.