315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Your highest female grace is silence.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

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.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.