Quote #13

The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.

More from Ben Jonson

  1. Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.
  2. So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains, Wherein rude winter bound her veins; So grows both stream and source of price, That lately fettere…
  3. Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.
  4. I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.
  5. Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though…
  6. Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.
  7. Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
  8. Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.

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