That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONFor 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 JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONI 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 JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONThe soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONThe 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 JONSONDrink 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 JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSON