79 Famous Quotes by Ben Jonson
6/11/1572 - 8/6/1637
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About Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
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And I had lent my watch last night to one
That dines to-day at the sheriff's.
Jewels
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Alchemist (act I, sc. 1)
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It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
Jewels
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Staple of News (act I, sc. 1)
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Fleas
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Every Man in his Humour (act IV, sc. 4)
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity.
Honor
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Catiline--His Conspiracy (act III, sc. 1, l. 1)
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
Wealth
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Every Man Out of His Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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And so to tread
As if the wind, not she, did walk;
Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
Footsteps
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Masques--The Vision of Delight
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Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Footsteps
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: The Sad Shepherd
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Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their example, pattern out
Their limitations, and regard of laws:
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
Royalty
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 3)
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.
Royalty
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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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.
Royalty
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Power
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Sejanus (act I)
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Art
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
Laughter
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Entertainments--The Penates
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The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Guilt
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 5)
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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Faults
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 2)
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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.
Faith
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: The Devil Is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
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Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Slander
Quotes, by Ben Jonson , Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 1)
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