Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONIt is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONI have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSONThere is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON