315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Blueness doth express trueness.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Fortune, that favors fools.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.