You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONHow ready is heaven to those that pray!
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONTo men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONYou are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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.
BEN JONSONOf all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSON