Ben Jonson Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Giving, Virtue

  Ben Jonson (1892). “Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter: And Some Poems”

• I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

  Ben Jonson

  Giving, True Or False, News

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques at court”, p.351

• Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Eye

  Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

• 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

• The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

  Ben Jonson

  Honesty, Men, Two

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.866

• It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Giving

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

• No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, Teaching, Men

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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