Ben Jonson
9 quotes.
Quotes by Ben Jonson
- Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee: it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.
- Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.
- Let not your sail be bigger than your boat.
- Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
- No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.
- Ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing.
- Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well are two things.