Ben Jonson quotes

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
- Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Ben Jonson

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

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
- 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'll not look for wine.
- Ben Jonson

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

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Jonson

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
- Ben Jonson

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
- Ben Jonson

A good king is a public servant.
- Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
- Ben Jonson

Peace is never more than one thought away.
- Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
- Ben Jonson

My thoughts and I were of another world.
- Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
- Ben Jonson

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
- Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.
- Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence.
- Ben Jonson

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
- Ben Jonson

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
- Ben Jonson

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
- Ben Jonson