The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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