black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Ben Jonson

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON

Exercise Men Writing
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON

Men Truth Use
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSON

Bird Kings Poet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON

Change Men Want Welcome
Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSON

Away Harmony More Peace
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON

Guilt Terrible Things
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Discourse Harsh Speech
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSON

Glasses Men Speech
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON

Courage Suffering Valor
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON

Fruit Sweet Taken
A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSON

Bones Canine Dog
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON

Evil Hate Men Oppress
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSON

Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSON

Funeral Physicians Punishment
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSON

Men Religion Religious

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Jonson Quotes