Ben Jonson Quotes - Page 5

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• Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sound, Bears, Argument

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson”, p.286

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• Blueness doth express trueness.

  Ben Jonson

  Color, Trueness

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson”, p.384

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

  Ben Jonson

  Giving, True Or False, News

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques at court”, p.351

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

  Ben Jonson

  Sick, Neurosis, Illness

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

  Ben Jonson

  Greed, Wealth, Glory

  1609 Volpone, act 1, sc.1.

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• Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Deities, Fortune

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.255

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• Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Men, Judging

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.763

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• Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

  Ben Jonson

  Soul, Age, Delight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

  Ben Jonson

  Death, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.54

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• If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

  Ben Jonson

  Scratches, Crafts, Succeed

  Ben Jonson, William GIFFORD (Editor of the Quarterly Review.) (1853). “The Works of Ben Jonson. With a Biographical Memoir, by William Gifford. A New Edition”, p.888

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• Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

  Ben Jonson

  Clothes, Wit, Countenance

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• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Lust, Decay

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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• [The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

  Ben Jonson

  Conceited, Play, Plain English

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, Induction.

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• Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
  To see thee in our water yet appear.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Swans, Sight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

  Ben Jonson

  Anxiety, Care, Possession

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• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

  Ben Jonson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• Man and wife make one fool.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 1, sc.1.

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• Your highest female grace is silence.

  Ben Jonson

  Silence, Grace, Female

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.337

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• How ready is heaven to those that pray!

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  Prayer, Heaven, Praying

  Ben Jonson (2014). “Ben Jonson: Four Plays”, p.160, A&C Black

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• There is no bounty to be showed to such
  As have real goodness: Bounty is
  A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
  Can take effect on them that have no power
  Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

  Ben Jonson

  Real, Spices, Virtue

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Swans, Meat

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.45

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

  Ben Jonson

  Fashion, Women, Quality

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.375

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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.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Causes

  'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

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• For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, May, Sake

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.788

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