Ben Jonson Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

  Ben Jonson

  Two, Envy, Honor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386

• 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

  Inspirational, Education, Past

  "Volpone and The Alchemist".

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

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Men, Honor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.207

• I do honor the very flea of his dog.

  Ben Jonson

  Dog, Hero, Honor

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.114

• It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

  Ben Jonson

  Honor, Noble, Ancestry

• I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
  No broken images of ancestors,
  Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
  Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

  Ben Jonson

  Long, Broken, Honor

  Ben Jonson, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1966). “The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary”

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