Quotes by John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

#Habit

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

#Habit

Honor is but an empty bubble.

#Honor

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times...

#Humility

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

#Jealousy

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

#Liberty

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds...

#Madness, #Wit

And plenty makes us poor.

#Poverty

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

#Possessions

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

#Repentance

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered...

#Tenderness, #Words

Even victors are by victory undone

#Victory