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Letter "B" » Ben Jonson Quotes
«I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, `Would he had blotted a thousand.'»
«He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity»
«They that know no evil will suspect none.»
«Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times»
«Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times»
«Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.»
«This is the very womb and bed of enormity.»
«Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.»
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
Author: Ben Jonson
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Dramatist,
Poet)
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Spenser,
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«Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.»