315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

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.

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

A good king is a public servant.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!