John Webster Duchess Of Malfi Quotes

#1. The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#2. Damn-the girl knew how to play.

Katie McGarry

#3. Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Ben Whishaw

#6. Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.

Robert McKee

#7. 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

#8. Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it.

Neil Gaiman

#9. This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Stephen King

#10. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

Thomas L. Dumm

#11. Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. Time and death sleep side by side.

Garth Nix

#13. I am Duchess of Malfi still.

John Webster

#14. They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#16. You cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.

Denmwen

#17. Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.

Vladimir Nabokov