We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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