Ben Jonson Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Your highest female grace is silence.

  Ben Jonson

  Silence, Grace, Female

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Poetaster; or, His arraignm[e]nt. Sejanus his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman”, p.337

• 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)

• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

  Ben Jonson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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