315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

In the hope to meet. Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

A good poet’s made as well as born.

All concord’s born of contraries.

Guilt’s a terrible thing.

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.