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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times - Ben Jonson Quotes

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

He threatens many that hath injured one. - Ben Jonson Quotes

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Crime And Criminals

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need - Ben Jonson Quotes

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Sweet swan of Avon! - Ben Jonson Quotes

Sweet swan of Avon!

Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.

Books And Reading

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks. - Ben Jonson Quotes

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome - Ben Jonson Quotes

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. - Ben Jonson Quotes

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Greek

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity - Ben Jonson Quotes

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson Quotes

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Choice Happiness

Calumnies are answered best with silence - Ben Jonson Quotes

Calumnies are answered best with silence

Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.Say, are not women truly, thenStyled but the shadows of us men? - Ben Jonson Quotes

Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.Say, are not women truly, thenStyled but the shadows of us men?

Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death - Ben Jonson Quotes

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death

As he brews, so shall he drink - Ben Jonson Quotes

As he brews, so shall he drink

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion! - Ben Jonson Quotes

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Time And Time Management

I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth rendered to the use of man. - Ben Jonson Quotes

I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth rendered to the use of man.

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. - Ben Jonson Quotes

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

Socializing And Socialism

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. - Ben Jonson Quotes

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

News Newspapers

Force works on servile natures, not the free. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Force

Art has an enemy called ignorance. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Arts And Artists

For a good poet's made as well as born. - Ben Jonson Quotes

For a good poet's made as well as born.

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon? - Ben Jonson Quotes

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick - Ben Jonson Quotes

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

A good poet's made as well as born. - Ben Jonson Quotes

A good poet's made as well as born.

Poetry And Poets

That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold - Ben Jonson Quotes

That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly - Ben Jonson Quotes

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent - Ben Jonson Quotes

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent

All concord's born of contraries - Ben Jonson Quotes

All concord's born of contraries

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends - Ben Jonson Quotes

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends

I do honor the very flea of his dog - Ben Jonson Quotes

I do honor the very flea of his dog

Honor

If you be sick, your own thoughts will make you sick - Ben Jonson Quotes

If you be sick, your own thoughts will make you sick

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered - Ben Jonson Quotes

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell - Ben Jonson Quotes

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell

Blueness doth express trueness. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Blueness doth express trueness.

Color

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation. - Ben Jonson Quotes

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Fate

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink - Ben Jonson Quotes

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Twas only fear first in the world made gods. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art's hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art's hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the fall o' the snow / Before the soil hath smutched it? . . . O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! - Ben Jonson Quotes

Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the fall o' the snow / Before the soil hath smutched it? . . . O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!

Still to be neat, still to be drest, / As you were going to a feast. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Still to be neat, still to be drest, / As you were going to a feast.

It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be. - Ben Jonson Quotes

It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.

In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want. - Ben Jonson Quotes

In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want.

Fortune, that favours fools. - Ben Jonson Quotes

Fortune, that favours fools.

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