Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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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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