Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much… — 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
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — 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
