Ben Jonson Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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”

• You are not now to think what's best to do,
  As in beginnings, but what must be done,
  Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage
  That may secure you. Let them call it mischief;
  When it is past, and prosper'd , 'twill be virtue.

  Ben Jonson

  Past, Virtue, Mischief

  "Complete Works of Ben Jonson".

• Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamèd shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death’s cold hand; Except Love’s fires the virtue have To fight the frost out of the grave.

  Ben Jonson

  Fall, Heart, Mean

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The magnetic lady: or, humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd: or, a tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Entertainments, &c”, p.266

• He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

  Ben Jonson

  Virtue, Glory, Servant

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.754

• I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

  Ben Jonson

  Compassion, Justice, Weakness

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, act 4, sc.2.

• A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Way, Salt

• There is no bounty to be showed to such
  As have real goodness: Bounty is
  A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
  Can take effect on them that have no power
  Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

  Ben Jonson

  Real, Spices, Virtue

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

• Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

  Ben Jonson

  Mean, Remembrance, World

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.140

• Princes that would their people should do well
  Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
  For men, by their example, pattern out
  Their limitations, and regard of laws:
  A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Law, People

• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Crowns, Virtue

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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