Top 160 Ben Jonson Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ben Jonson Quote: “Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.”

151. “Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.”

152. “Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.”

153. “Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.”

154. “Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.”

155. “I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.”

156. “The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.”

157. “The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “For he that once is good, is ever great.”

158. “For he that once is good, is ever great.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Poets are far rarer birds than kings.”

159. “Poets are far rarer birds than kings.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.”

160. “It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Prevent your day at morning.”

161. “Prevent your day at morning.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.”

162. “A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”

163. “It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.”

164. “To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.”

165. “Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.”

166. “Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.”

167. “Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.”

168. “And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome.”

169. “All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.”

170. “I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.”

171. “Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.”

172. “True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.”

173. “A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.”

174. “I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.”

175. “Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering.”

176. “One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.”

177. “It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Let argument bear no unmusical sound.”

178. “Let argument bear no unmusical sound.”

Ben Jonson Quote: “Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.”

179. “Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.”

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