Inspirational Quotes by Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

— Ben Jonson

Blueness doth express trueness.

— Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.

— Ben Jonson

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

— Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

— Ben Jonson

Peace is never more than one thought away.

— Ben Jonson

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

— Ben Jonson

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

— Ben Jonson

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

— Ben Jonson

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

— Ben Jonson

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

— Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

— Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

— Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

— Ben Jonson

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

— Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

— Ben Jonson

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of…

— Ben Jonson

Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they…

— Ben Jonson

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself,…

— Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.

— Ben Jonson

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

— Ben Jonson

The burnt child dreads the fire.

— Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

— Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.

— Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

— Ben Jonson

That old bald cheater, Time.

— Ben Jonson

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

— Ben Jonson

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

— Ben Jonson

All concord's born of contraries.

— Ben Jonson

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

— Ben Jonson

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

— Ben Jonson

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

— Ben Jonson

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

— Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

— Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

— Ben Jonson