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.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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 less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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