Ben Jonson Quotes

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It's being willing to tell them the days they're not wonderful.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you"

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

As you talk, so is your heart.

Pursue truth and people will be true to you.

I think that an actor shouldn't work from a place of fear, because it'll show in your work. You should work from a place of contentment, relaxation, and coming from your heart, and from the truth of yourself.

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.