315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

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.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered

Hell itself must yield to industry.

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