All Ben Jonson Quotes
- Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. Art
- Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Affliction
- How ready is heaven to those that pray! Heaven
- Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. Cases
- Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. Beyond
- Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace. Disease
- The way to rise is to obey and please. Inspirational
- Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure… Doors
- Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. Given
- He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory. Glory
- Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way. Go
- Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. Age
- Fortune, that favors fools. Favors
- I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a… Answer
- A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect… Black
- I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a… Action
- Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like… Beast
- Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. Accounted
- For he that once is good, is ever great. Ever Great
- The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. Covetousness