Frases de John Dryden

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“Homens são crianças grandes.”

“Primeiro fazemos nossos hábitos, depois nossos hábitos nos fazem.”

“O erro que cometemos é quando procuramos ser amados, em vez de amar.”

“O amor calcula as horas por meses, e os dias por anos; e cada pequena ausência é uma eternidade.”

“Os grandes espíritos são seguramente aliados da loucura, separam-nos finas paredes.”

“A felicidade que o homem pode alcançar, não está no prazer, mas no descanso da dor.”

“Há na loucura um prazer que só os loucos conhecem”

“Pois os políticos não amam, nem odeiam.”

“Força de ânimo e coragem na adversidade servem, para conquistar o êxito, mais do que um exército.”

“Às más notícias o fado dá asas, e elas voam velozes.”

“O amor é a mais nobre fraqueza do espírito.”

“Resta saber se o casamento é um dos sete sacramentos ou um dos sete pecados mortais.”

“Cuidado com a fúria de um homem paciente.”

“Aqui jaz a minha esposa: que ela tenha repouso!
Agora ela está em paz, e eu também.”

“Aquele que procura pérolas deve mergulhar fundo.”

“Nem o próprio céu tem poder sobre o passado.”

“Por mais que protestemos e vociferemos, sabe a mulher enredar-nos com um simples fio de cabelo.”

“Arrependimento é a virtude das mentes fracas.”

“A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.”

“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”

“His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.”

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

“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

“Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”

“Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.”

“Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
Or both divide the crown;
He rais’d a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.”

“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”

“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”

“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the day.”

“Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.”

“Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”

“I have found, by trial, Homer a more pleasing task than Virgil (though I say not the translation will be less laborious); for the Grecian is more according to my genius, than the Latin poet.”

“And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.”

“Second thoughts, they say, are best.”

“The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.”

“This is the porcelain clay of humankind.”

“Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”

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

“I have a soul that like an ample shield
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.”

“His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.”

“And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.”

“She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.”

“She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.”

“Words, once my stock, are wanting to commend
So great a poet and so good a friend.”

“His hair just grizzled,
As in a green old age.”

“An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.”