We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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