Ben Jonson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Ben Jonson

  Motivational, Wise, Communication

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3209, Delphi Classics

• Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

  Ben Jonson

  Leadership, Men, May

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.53, Manchester University Press

• Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

  Ben Jonson

  Mistress, Language, Stamps

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

• 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

• Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Men, Glasses

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

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