John Dryden Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

  John Dryden

  Love, Wise, Mind

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

• Politicians neither love nor hate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Hate, Love Hate

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.223.

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

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Breakup

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

• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

• Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

  John Dryden

  Love, Fate, Choices

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.413, Delphi Classics

• Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Grows

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

  John Dryden

  Love, Power, Remember

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.132

• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

  John Dryden

  Love, Grace, Literature

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

  John Dryden

  Love, Life, Passion

• Love either finds equality or makes it.

  John Dryden

  Love, Marriage, Best Love

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

• When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

  John Dryden

  Love, Fire, Blood

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.432

• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  John Dryden

  Love, Ambition, Ice

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

• But love's a malady without a cure.

  John Dryden

  Love, Literature, Cures

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 2, l. 110

• Calms appear, when Storms are past;
  Love will have his Hour at last:
  Nature is my kindly Care;
  Mars destroys, and I repair;
  Take me, take me, while you may,
  Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

  John Dryden

  Love, Past, Storm

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

  John Dryden

  Love, Men, Heaven

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

• My love's a noble madness.

  John Dryden

  Love, Noble, Madness

  'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

• Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

  John Dryden

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

• When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

  John Dryden

  Love, Snow, Used

  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.407

• Time and death shall depart and say in flying
  Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

  John Dryden

  Love, Flying, Dying

  John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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