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
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Man and wife make one fool.
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.