315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.

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

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

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.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.