We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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