315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.