All Ben Jonson Quotes
- If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. All
- Success hath made me wanton. Funny
- [The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. Conceited
- Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. Certain
- Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel… Affection
- Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Alike
- I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight… Adore
- Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… Art
- Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges,… Accurate
- True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Choice
- There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. Fear
- Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look… Cup
- Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. Age
- Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Accuracy
- Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. Judgement
- In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. Beauties
- Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco. Lust
- Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. Beast
- Indeed there's a woundy luck in names. Inspirational
- Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. All