Top 82 John Webster Quotes
#2. Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river,
For that some melancholic distracted man
Hath drowned himself in't.
John Webster
#4. Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.
John Webster
#5. In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster
#6. The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice.
John Webster
#7. Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
John Webster
#8. The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Webster
#9. Right! There are plots.
Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't!
How long have I beheld the devil in crystal!
Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice,
With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers,
To my eternal ruin. Woman to man
Is either a god, or a wolf.
John Webster
#10. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.
John Webster
#11. All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.
John Webster
#12. I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
John Webster
#13. When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ...
John Webster
#15. Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.
John Webster
#16. Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust
John Webster
#17. Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.
John Webster
#19. Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
John Webster
#20. Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster
#22. Do you not weep?
Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
John Webster
#23. For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
#24. Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
John Webster
#25. The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
John Webster
#26. DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
John Webster
#27. Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue!
John Webster
#29. When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster
#30. Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
John Webster
#31. All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
John Webster
#33. When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster
#34. How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.
John Webster
#35. Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
John Webster
#36. Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.
John Webster
#37. O that I were a man, or that I had power
To execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions.
John Webster
#38. Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.
John Webster
#39. Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
John Webster
#40. Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster
#41. Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
#42. Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
#43. Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
John Webster
#44. Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
John Webster
#45. So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.
John Webster
#46. A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
#47. I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.
John Webster
#48. Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.
John Webster
#49. Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.
John Webster
#50. Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other.
John Webster
#51. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
John Webster
#52. You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,
Enters the devil murder.
John Webster
#53. Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
#54. I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake
John Webster
#55. See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
John Webster
#56. That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.
John Webster
#57. Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
John Webster
#58. We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.
John Webster
#59. Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air,
Or all the elements by scruples, I know not,
Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!
Of all deaths, the violent death is best;
For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,
The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.
John Webster
#60. See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
John Webster
#61. If all my royal kindred
Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps
John Webster
#62. Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster
#63. Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
John Webster
#64. What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.
John Webster
#65. We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
John Webster
#66. That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster
#67. Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
John Webster
#68. Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.
John Webster
#69. Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
John Webster
#70. And great men do great good, or else great harm.
John Webster
#71. As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils.
John Webster
#72. Are you out of your princely wits?
What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!
John Webster
#73. Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
John Webster
#74. The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
John Webster
#75. What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
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#76. Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
John Webster
#77. We had need to borrow that fantastic glass,invented by Galileo the Florentine
To view another spacious world in the moon
and look to find a constant woman there
John Webster
#78. Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.
John Webster
#80. Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me
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#82. I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
John Webster
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