Quotes by Ben Jonson

He was not of an age but for all time.

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

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."

To see and to be seen.

Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry: For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

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

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

The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.