As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
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… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
