Quotes by John Webster

About John Webster:

John Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare's.
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

John Webster

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

John Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

John Webster

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

John Webster

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 go...

John Webster

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

John Webster

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 quit...

John Webster

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.

John Webster

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.

John Webster

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

John Webster

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

John Webster

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

John Webster

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

John Webster

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

John Webster

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

John Webster

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

John Webster

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Webster
  • DescriptionEnglish dramatist
  • Born1578
  • Died1634
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Writer