Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonsonwas an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th 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 satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Foxe, The Alchemistand Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedyand for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 June 1572
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
Blueness doth express trueness.
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.