Quotes by : Ben Jonson

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.....

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things;....

He was not of an age but for all time.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.