Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonsonwas an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Foxe, The Alchemistand Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedyand for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 June 1572
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
A good life is a main argument.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
All concord's born of contraries.
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.