Frases de John Dryden

página 6

“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.”

“Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures, and of loves;
Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian groves.”

“She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,
Grows cold even in the summer of her age.”

“Timotheus, to his breathing flute,
And sounding lyre,
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”

“They say everything in the world is good for something.”

“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”

“Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”

“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”

“And kind as kings upon their coronation day.”

“Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.”

“Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,
Against your judgment, your departed friend!”

“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore;
Long labours both by sea and land he bore.”

“Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain.”

“Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.”

“O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!”

“All empire is no more than power in trust.”

“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric…”

“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”

“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last prerogative.”

“Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.”

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

“A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.”

“Not only hating David, but the king.”

“Since ev’ry 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 th' appointed place we tend;
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.”

“Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The next, in majesty; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go.
To make a third, she joined the former two.”

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

“And doomed to death, though fated not to die.”

“Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took;
Friends to congratulate their friends made haste,
And long inveterate foes saluted as they passed.”

“And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.”

“For pity melts the mind to love.”