Бен Джонсон цитаты

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„Даже самому лучшему капитану нужны матросы и, кроме того, корабль, паруса, якорь и многое другое.“

„Подобно тому как любовь без уважения недолговечна и непостоянна, так и уважение без любви холодно и немощно.“

„Мнение о человеке, как и почти о каждом существе, зависит от того, с какого расстояния на него смотреть.“

„Болтливость — болезнь возраста.“

„Ревнивый человек в душе желал бы быть не больше не меньше, как богом для предмета своей любви.“

„Время — старый откровенный обманщик.“

„Хвалебные речи, подобно золоту и алмазам, имеют цену лишь тогда, когда они редки.“

“There shall be no love lost.”

“A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?[Jonson] calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering "No," demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair,
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess, excellently bright.”

“Calumnies are answered best with silence.”

“I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.”

“That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.”

“That Shakespeare wanted Art.”

“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”

“If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.”

“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks…”

“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”

“For if I thought my judgment were of years,
I should commit thee surely with thy peers,
And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine,
Or sporting Kyd, or Marlow's mighty line.
And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek,
From thence to honour thee, I will not seek
For names…”

“What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?”

“I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."”

“Courses even with the sun
Doth her mighty brother run.”

“Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast.”

“The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And, though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.”

“Truth is the trial of itself
And needs no other touch,
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.”

“They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.”

“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”

“I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.”

“It was a mighty while ago.”

“Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,
That expresseth but by fits,
True conceit,
Spoiling senses of their treasure,
Cozening judgement with a measure,
But false weight.
Wresting words from their true calling;
Propping verse, for fear of falling
To the ground.
Jointing syllables, drowning letters,
Fastening vowels, as with fetters
They were bound!”

“His opinion of verses.
That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him.

That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.”

“Though the most be players, some must be spectators.”

“He is a narrow-minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study; but to triumph in a lie, and a lie themselves have forged, is frontless. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”