John Webster Quotes

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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.

John Webster
We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
Which way please them.

John Webster
And of all axioms this shall win the prize,—
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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

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I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

John Webster
Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young. Bosola: I think not so; her infelicity Seemed to have years too many.

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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

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'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden; the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.

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Leave thy idle questions;
I am i'th'way to study a long silence,
To prate were idle.

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The Affairs of Comets, Sir, with their grisly Beards and Horrid Tails, fright me almost out of my Wits...

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Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.

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But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

John Webster
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.

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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

John Webster
I have caught
An everlasting cold; I have lost my voice
Most irrecoverably.

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Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.

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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

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

John Webster
I account this world a tedious theater,
For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

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

John Webster
There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deform'd, so beastly, as doth intemp'rate anger.

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

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I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

John Webster