Quotes by 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.”

“Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.”

“He was not of an age but for all time!”

“Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.”

“Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.”

“Dowling 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.”

“A woman the more careful she is about her face is commonly the more careless about her house.”

“Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.”

“He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.”

“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.”

“There shall be no love lost.”

“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs, ...”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.”

“That old bald cheater, Time.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“The world knows only two, — that's Rome and I.”

“Calumnies are answered best with silence.”

“You that would last long, list to my song, Make no more coil, but buy of this oil. Would you be ever fair and young? Stout of teeth and strong of tongue? Tart of palate, quick of ear? Sharp of sigh...”

“Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.”

“Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.”