John Webster Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

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Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

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See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

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

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Princes, Masters, Parents, Magistrates, Judges, Friends, Eniemies, faire or foule meanes cannot containe, us; but a little sicknesse will correct and amend us.

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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.

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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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Physicians are like kings,—they brook no contradiction.

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

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Bosola: Didst thou never study mathematics? Old Lady: What's that, sir? Bosola: Why, to know the trick how to make many lines met in one centre.

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

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

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See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

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Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

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

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From the phisito & Attorney, keepe not the truth hidden.

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

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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.

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I had a limb corrupted to an ulcer, But I have cut it off; and now I'll go Weeping to heaven on crutches.

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A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.

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

John Webster