4 Ben Jonson Quotes on Criticism

Ben Jonson quotes on criticism

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

49. The players often mentioned it as an honour 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.'

56. That Shakespeare wanted Art.

59. Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.