For Students
John Dryden: Quotes
- Absence
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
: Amphitryon - Boldness and Enterprise
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. - Courage
None but the brave deserves the fair.
- Dance
The poetry of the foot.: The Rival Ladies
- Death
Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.
: Aureng-Zebe - Forgiveness
Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
: The Conquest of Granada - Health and Fitness
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. - Love
For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age,
When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
: Mithridates - Men
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.
: All for Love - Mental Illness
There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
: The Spanish Friar - Repentance and Remorse
Repentance is but want of power to sin.: Palamon and Arcite
- The People
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.
: Absalom and Achitophel - The Present
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.”