Quotes About Jonson

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

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

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

He is not didactic, like Sidney or Jonson. He doesn't tell you what he thinks, or what you should think, and he never preaches. Rather he sets up oppositions, multiple viewpoints, and then holds his mirror up to nature.