Ben Jonson Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

  Ben Jonson

  Understanding, Ears, Speak

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1879). “The Works of Ben Jonson”

• 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

• True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

  Ben Jonson

  Perfect, Melancholy, Fine

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1875). “The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.63

• 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

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

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

• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Sleep

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

• Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

  Ben Jonson

  Clothes, Wit, Countenance

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