Ben Jonson Quotes
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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As he brews, so shall he drink.
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It must be done like lightning.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
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I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'.
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That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.
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Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
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Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
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True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.
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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
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If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
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Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
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Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
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I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
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For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlow's mighty line. And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek, From thence to honour thee, I will not seek For names…
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In the meantime, to all suits, to all entreaties, to all letters, to all tricks, I will be deaf as an adder, blind as a beetle, lay mine ear to the ground, and lock mine eyes i' my hand against all temptations.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.