315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

How near to good is what is fair!

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.