O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
-
-
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON -
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSON -
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSON -
Hell itself must yield to industry.
BEN JONSON -
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSON -
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSON -
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSON -
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON -
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSON -
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSON -
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.
BEN JONSON -
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON -
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSON -
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON -
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSON