Ben Jonson Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

  Ben Jonson

  Father, Son, Greatness

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.745

• I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

  Ben Jonson

  Father, Men, Parent

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “Memoirs of Jonson, &c. Every man in his humour”, p.18

• That I might live alone once with my gold!
  O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
  A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
  Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
  That which makes all men false, is true itself.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Brother, Money

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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