126 quotes
Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.
The Alchemist (1610)
Where guilt is, rage and courage both abound.
Sejanus His Fall (1602)
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Volpone (1606)
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
The Poetaster (1601)
He was not of an age, but for all time!
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618)
Why should we defer our joys?
Fame and rumour are but toys.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)
Truth is the trial of itself
And needs no other touch,
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.
The Touchstone of Truth (1624)
I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640)
Let them call it mischief:
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618)
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Underwoods (1640)
Thou art but gone before,
Whither the world must follow.
Who falls for love of God shall rise a star.
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Care that is entered once into the breast
Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640)
What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Here
The letters may be read, through the horn,
That make the story perfect.
Volpone (1605)