We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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