Conceited Quote by Ben Jonson Download Open image “[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.” — Ben Jonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceited Inspirational Plain english Play
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
In your hurry-up or no-huddle, you might just say a word, and then everyone's understanding, 'It's this play.' — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. — Thornton Wilder 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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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they… — Jamie Eason Copy Share Image
I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
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Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The emptiest people on this planet are usually the ones full of themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image