315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.

The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.

I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

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

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

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

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.