Love Quotes by John Dryden

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

— John Dryden

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

— John Dryden

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.

— John Dryden

Love either finds equality or makes it.

— John Dryden

By education most have been misled.

— John Dryden

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

— John Dryden

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

— John Dryden

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— John Dryden

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

— John Dryden

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

— John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

— John Dryden

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

— John Dryden

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark,…

— John Dryden

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

— John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But…

— John Dryden

Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first…

— John Dryden

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which…

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

— John Dryden

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is…

— John Dryden

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I…

— John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that…

— John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they…

— John Dryden

“A sigh or tear perhaps she'll give, But love on pity cannot live: Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And…

— John Dryden

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first,…

— John Dryden

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

Pity melts the mind to love.

— John Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.

— John Dryden

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

— John Dryden

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

— John Dryden

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

— John Dryden

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

— John Dryden

Love is love's reward.

— John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

— John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

— John Dryden