Ben Jonson Quotes on Criticism

4 quotes

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

  2. 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.'

  3. That Shakespeare wanted Art.

  4. 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.

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