John Dryden Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
  Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.
  Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

  John Dryden

  Life, Men, Thinking

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2746, Delphi Classics

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

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 4, sc. 1

• Take not away the life you cannot give:
  For all things have an equal right to live.

  John Dryden

  Life, Giving, Equal

  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.227

• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

• Love is a passion
  Which kindles honor into noble acts.

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Passion

• Pity melts the mind to love.

  John Dryden

  Life, Love Life, Mind

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.593, Pearson Education

• Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
  Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Taught

  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.458

• 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

• How happy the lover,
  How easy his chain,
  How pleasing his pain,
  How sweet to discover
  He sighs not in vain.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

• Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
  And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ties, Laughing

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 148.

• Like pilgrims to th' 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

• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today:
  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

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "The Major Works".

• Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ease, Prodigals

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 165

• 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

• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

• I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

  John Dryden

  Life, Native Language, Trade

  John Dryden (1988). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697”, p.336, Univ of California Press

• 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

• So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

  John Dryden

  Life, Dream, Heaven

  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.136

• 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.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

• 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 lived today.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

• Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

  John Dryden

  Life, Kindness, Keys

  'All for Love' (1678) act 5, sc. 1 (of Love)

• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Nature

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