315 Quotes by Ben Jonson

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.