Ben Jonson Quotes:- Ben Jonson (11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson’s artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularized the comedy of humor; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. “He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.”
Inspirational Ben Jonson Quotes
“He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
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“In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.”
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“Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered twill be a virtue.”
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“Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.”
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“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.”
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“Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.”
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“This is the very womb and bed of enormity.”
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“Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.”
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“He threatens many that hath injured one.”
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“O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!”
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“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in the worth and choice.”
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“He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.”
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“To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”
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“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
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“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.”
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Famous and Powerful Quotes by Ben Jonson
“If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.”
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“I do honor the very flea of his dog.”
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“A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.”
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“‘Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”
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“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.”
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“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
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“Fortune, that favors fools.”
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“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”
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“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.”
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“They that know no evil will suspect none.”
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“Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco?”
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“And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.”
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“Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.”
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“Talking is the disease of age.”
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“Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns to delight itself to punishment.”
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“Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.”
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“Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.”
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