| 79 Famous Quotes by Ben Jonson
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“I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.”
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“Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 1)
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“It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“Frugality is the mother of all virtues.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A brute without a single redeeming point.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A countenance inconceivably forbidding.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A third Cato has dropped from the skies.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it falls and die that night--
It was the plant and flower of Light.”
Growth Quotes Source: Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
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“The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the sound had parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.”
Voice Quotes Source: Eupheme (IV)
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“I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to
Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never
plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a
thousand.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Discoveries--De Shakespeare nostrat
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“This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver had a strife
With Nature, to outdo the life:
Oh, could he but have drawn his wit
As well in brass, as he has hit
His face, the print would then surpass
All that was ever writ in brass;
But since he cannot, reader, look
Not on his picture, but his book.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Lines on a Picture of Shakespeare
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“For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue; even so the race
Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine
In his well-turned and true-filed lines;
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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“He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Muses still were in their prime,
When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm
Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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“Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,
As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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“'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.”
Crime Quotes Source: Volpone (act III, sc. 6)
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“Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.”
Argument Quotes Source: The Alchemist (act II, sc. 1)
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“Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?”
Shadows Quotes Source: The Forest--Song--That Women are but Men's Shadows
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“So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
Lie still without a fee.”
Judges Quotes Source: Volpone (act I, sc. 1)
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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.”
Toasts Quotes Source: The Forest--Song to Celia
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“The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.”
Toasts Quotes Source: The Forest--To Celia
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“To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.”
Toasts Quotes Source: Metamorphosed Gipsies--Third Song
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“Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Epicaene; or, The Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1, song)
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