Ben Jonson Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Disappointment, Envy

• He was not of an age, but for all time!

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Age, All Time

  "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare" l. 38 (1623)

• Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

  Ben Jonson

  Stars, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.751

• Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

  Ben Jonson

  Soul, Age, Delight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

  Ben Jonson

  Age, Example, Youth

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

• 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, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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