Ben Jonson Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

  Ben Jonson

  Friendship, Positive, Happiness

  'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

• True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

  Ben Jonson

  Joy, Tongue, Speak

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.2707, Delphi Classics

• Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Joy, Barns

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.132

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