Quotes from Ben Jonson

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

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

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

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

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

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

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

Freedom doth with degree dispense.