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.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON -
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON -
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
BEN JONSON -
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSON -
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSON -
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSON -
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSON -
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON -
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSON -
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSON -
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON -
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON -
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSON -
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON -
That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON -
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON -
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSON -
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON -
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON -
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSON -
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 JONSON -
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSON -
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSON -
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON