Ben Jonson quote: "Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb."

This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON

It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON

If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON

Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON

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

He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON

Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON

All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON

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

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON

So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce L...
BEN JONSON

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
BEN JONSON

A brute without a single redeeming point.
BEN JONSON

O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with...
BEN JONSON

Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
BEN JONSON

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
BEN JONSON

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which ...
BEN JONSON

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
BEN JONSON

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

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

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the ...
BEN JONSON

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath bea...
BEN JONSON

And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.
BEN JONSON

Small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON

It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three...
BEN JONSON

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. ...
BEN JONSON

Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel To swim the hav...
BEN JONSON

I do honour the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON

Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
BEN JONSON

And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk; Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
BEN JONSON

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
BEN JONSON

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
BEN JONSON

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON

See and to be seen.
BEN JONSON

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (w...
BEN JONSON

For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face Lives...
BEN JONSON

He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, lik...
BEN JONSON

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she den...
BEN JONSON

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON

I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. . . . . Poems are made by foo...
BEN JONSON

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup,...
BEN JONSON

The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar...
BEN JONSON

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON

Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the...
BEN JONSON

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
BEN JONSON

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

Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.
BEN JONSON

Sweet swan of Avon!
BEN JONSON

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times
BEN JONSON

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
BEN JONSON

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON

Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON

Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines! Which we...
BEN JONSON

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast i...
BEN JONSON

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For m...
BEN JONSON

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.
BEN JONSON

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

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
BEN JONSON

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

Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly it, it will pursue.
So court a mistress, sh...
BEN JONSON

For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON

The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON

The master of art or giver of wit, Their belly.
BEN JONSON

Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the...
BEN JONSON

Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
BEN JONSON

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, ...
BEN JONSON

The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON

Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.
BEN JONSON

Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all p...
BEN JONSON

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
BEN JONSON

Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies y...
BEN JONSON

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, us...
BEN JONSON

Good morning to the day: and next, my gold! - / Open the shrine that I may see my saint.
BEN JONSON

If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON

The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
BEN JONSON

Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.
BEN JONSON

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.
BEN JONSON

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?
BEN JONSON

Underneath this stone doth lie / As much beauty as could die.
BEN JONSON

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

Fortune, that favors fools
BEN JONSON

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat
BEN JONSON

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity
BEN JONSON

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times
BEN JONSON

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON

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

All concord's born of contraries
BEN JONSON

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.
BEN JONSON

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.
BEN JONSON

A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON

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

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, /...
BEN JONSON

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'...
BEN JONSON

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I&...
BEN JONSON

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
BEN JONSON

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

Talking is the disease of age.
BEN JONSON

Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
BEN JONSON

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

Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rus...
BEN JONSON

It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.
BEN JONSON

In the last five years, really since Republicans took control, there seems to be more of this going ...
BILL JONSON

Florida means land of flowers, not land of ugly.
BILL JONSON

I sure like taking money from Opus.
BILL JONSON

This is not a giant step forward to a business owner. It would be more of an indication of support f...
BILL JONSON

The billboard folks are masters at delay.
BILL JONSON

This puts finality on two cases that have been pending for a long time. Ten years seems like a long ...
BILL JONSON

I think some of (the developments) would be quite nice if there was some space around them. It's alm...
BILL JONSON

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN

It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE

Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON

I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE

Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS

Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO

Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO

Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.

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Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.

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