126 quotes
The world knows only two, — that's Rome and I.
Sejanus (1603)
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.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)
There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)
Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia's Revels (1600)
Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
Every Man in His Humour (1598)
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.
Catiline His Conspiracy (1611)
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander makes it true.
Catiline His Conspiracy (1611)
The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
The Devil Is an Ass (1616)
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Every Man out of His Humour (1598)
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the event.
Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
The Masque of Hymen (1606)
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
Sejanus (1603)
I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (1629)