315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.