Quotes by Benjamin Jonson
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Blueness doth express trueness.
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
All concord's born of contraries.
Confound these ancestors... they've stolen our best ideas!
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear
Wise child, didst hastily return And mad'st thy mother's womb thine urn....
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Though I am young and cannot tell Either what death or love is well,...
Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell, By what was done and wrought...
