Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONFor they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONI now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONDrink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSONCares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSON