"In small proportions we just beauties see; And……" — Ben Jonson
"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."
—
Ben Jonson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson has 174 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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.
See all 174 quotes by Ben Jonson »
More Beauties Quotes
This quote is filed under Beauties Quotes,
one of 164 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
-
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
— Daniel Boone
-
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in…
— Julie Burchill
-
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our…
— Jimmy Carter
-
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
-
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
— William Shakespeare
-
Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
-
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
-
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
-
To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and…
— Nhat Hanh
-
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
— Rajneesh
See all 164 Beauties Quotes »