Ben Jonson Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  'Every Man in His Humour' (1598) act 3, sc. 5

• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Lust, Decay

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

• To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

  Ben Jonson

  Long, Treasure, Pleasure

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.620

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