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Ben Jonson Quotes

«I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour 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.'»
«He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity»
«They that know no evil will suspect none.»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Evil
«Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times»
«Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: brooch, brooches
«Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Meaning, Words | Keywords: weigh
«This is the very womb and bed of enormity.»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: enormity, womb
«Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.»
«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.»
«Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: apes, clothed, scarlet

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