John Dryden Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

  John Dryden

  Life, Night, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.146

• Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Drinking

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

• Present joys are more to flesh and blood
  Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Determination, Blood

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364

• Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Cutting, Thinking

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.241

• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

• Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

  John Dryden

  Joy, Watches, Youth

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.228

• My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Thinking, Mad

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

• Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

  John Dryden

  Rain, Fate, Past

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.349

• When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

  John Dryden

  Autumn, Joy, Pears

• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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