Call Quote by Ben Jonson Download Open image “Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.” — Ben Jonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Call Character Mischief Past Them Virtue
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm. Shall in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
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