We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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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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Drink 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.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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I 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.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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