--- title: "3 Antiquity Quotes By Ben Jonson" description: "3 Antiquity quotes by Ben Jonson. Plus more from Ben Jonson and more Antiquity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_1216326.jpg" --- > [“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-kind-of-majesty-to-style-and/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_1216326.jpg) > [That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished-on-the-dead-and-that-the/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/ben-jonson-1371_able_that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished_1612818.png) > [Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-kind-of-majesty-to-style-and-2/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/467/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_2111395.jpg) ## Other authors on Antiquity - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-confucius-24951.jpg) Confucius 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/confucius/) ## More by Ben Jonson > [Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/soul-of-the-age-the-applause-delight-the-wonder-of-our-stage-my/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/ambition-like-a-torrent-never-looks-back/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/heaven-prepares-good-men-with-crosses-but-no-ill-can-happen-to-a-good/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-dignity-of-truth-is-lost-with-much-protesting/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/true-melancholy-breeds-your-perfect-fine-wit/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/leave-a-kiss-but-in-the-cup-and-i-ll-not-look-for-wine/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/all-discourses-but-my-own-afflict-me-they-seem-harsh-impertinent-and/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [“drink to the cause, and pure vapours”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/drink-to-the-cause-and-pure-vapours/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/spread-yourself-upon-his-bosom-publicly-whose-heart-you-would-eat-in/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [That old bald cheater, Time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/that-old-bald-cheater-time/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/rich-apparel-has-strange-virtues-it-makes-him-that-hath-it-without/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/each-petty-hand-can-steer-a-ship-becalm-d-but-he-that-will-govern-and/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [The way to rise is to obey and please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-way-to-rise-is-to-obey-and-please/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/the-covetous-man-never-has-money-the-prodigal-will-have-none-shortly/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) > [Fortune, that favors fools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/fortune-that-favors-fools/) [Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ben-jonson/#itemlist", "name": "3 Antiquity Quotes By Ben Jonson", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ben Jonson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-kind-of-majesty-to-style-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_1216326.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_1216326.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/980/ben-jonson-1371_antiquity_words-borrowed-of-antiquity-do-lend-a-ki_1216326.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.” — Ben Jonson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ben Jonson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished-on-the-dead-and-that-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/ben-jonson-1371_able_that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished_1612818.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/ben-jonson-1371_able_that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished_1612818.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/ben-jonson-1371_able_that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished_1612818.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to…” — Ben Jonson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. 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