Ben Jonson Quotes
"Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Lust)
"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Clocks, Forget, Sun)
"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Success, Accuracy, Confidence, Reputation)
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Eloquence, Talking)
"Talking is the disease of age."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Age, Disease, Talking)
"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Fear, Hell)
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Art, Reason, Will)
"They that know no evil will suspect none."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Evil, Will)
"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Bed)
"Weigh the meaning and look not at the words."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Meaning, Words)
"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Fool, Man, May, Talk)
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Delight, Mind, Punishment, Vice)
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Virtue, Past)
"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Thoughts)
"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Disease, End, Musicians)
"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 for wine."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Kiss, Eyes, Will, Wine)
"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Language, Man, May)
"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Life, May)
"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Ambition)
"And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek."
- Ben Jonson
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Art, Enemy, Ignorance)
"Fortune, that favors fools."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Favors, Fools, Fortune)
"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Men, Stars)
"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Fool)
"He threatens many that hath injured one."
- Ben Jonson
"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Honor, Man)
"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Woman)
"I do honour the very flea of his dog."
- Ben Jonson
"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Strength, Adversity)
"Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet."
- Ben Jonson
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Fortune, Man)