315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.