Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
"Ben Jonson" was an English dramatist/playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satire/satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone/Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (play)/The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614), and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James VI and I/James I.
Jonson was a Classics/classically educated, well-read, and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Ben Jonson on Wikipedia.Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
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.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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.
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.Say, are not women truly, thenStyled but the shadows of us men?
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.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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