Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit. Ben Jonson More Quotes by Ben Jonson More Quotes From Ben Jonson Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Ben Jonson never good man deceived They that know no evil will suspect none. Ben Jonson suspect will know evil This is the very womb and bed of enormity. Ben Jonson enormity very womb bed Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. Ben Jonson clothed though scarlet Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson hath ignorance enemy art