Ben Jonson Quotes

181 quotes in 1590 categories

• Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
• 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…
• Calumnies are answered best with silence.
• Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
• The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make…
• Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
• The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
• Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
• Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
• Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
• It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
• Peace is never more than one thought away.
• No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
• Your highest female grace is silence.
• It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
• True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
• Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
• A good life is a main argument.

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