Frases de Ben Jonson
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Benjamin Jonson, conhecido como Ben Jonson , foi um dramaturgo, poeta e ator inglês da Renascença, contemporâneo de Shakespeare. Entre suas peças mais conhecidas estão Volpone, The Alchemist e Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy . Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Junho 1572 – 6. Agosto 1637
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“A melhor resposta às calúnias é o silêncio.”

citado em "Com a Corda Toda - Auto-estima E Qualidade de Vida‎" - Página 157, de KARIM KHOURY - Senac, 2004, ISBN 8573593032, 9788573593037 - 244 páginas
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Volpone (1606), Act II, scene ii

Ben Jonson: Frases em inglês

“Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice — almighty gold.”

Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, lines 1-2. Comparable to "The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold", John Wolcot, To Kien Long, Ode iv; "Almighty dollar", Washington Irving, The Creole Village.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.”

The Alchemist (1610), Act IV, scene vii

“Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse,—
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
Death, ere thou hast slain another,
Learn'd and fair and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.”

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This epitaph is generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. It appears in the editions of his Works; but in a manuscript collection of Browne's poems preserved amongst the Lansdowne MS. No. 777, in the British Museum, it is ascribed to Browne, and awarded to him by Sir Egerton Brydges in his edition of Browne's poems.

“If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

VI, To Alchemists, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.”

Ben Jonson Catiline His Conspiracy

Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), Act III, scene ii

“As he brews, so shall he drink.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act ii, Scene 1
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.”

LXI, To Fool, or Knave, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“That old bald cheater, Time.”

Ben Jonson The Poetaster

The Poetaster (1601), Act I, scene i

“There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.”

XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“A good life is a main argument.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“The burnt child dreads the fire.”

Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)

“Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.”

CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book.”

To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10

“Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.”

That Women Are But Men's Shadows, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!”

XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods