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.
BEN JONSONWell, 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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.
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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
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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