John Webster Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

  John Webster

  Husband, Maids, Poverty

  5 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Men, Evil, Black

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.50

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Life, Kings, Ambition

  'The Devil's Law-Case' (1623) act 5, sc. 4

  4 Copy quote

• Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

  John Webster

  Kings, Doctors, Physicians

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 5, sc. 2, l. 72

  4 Copy quote

• I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. '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.

  John Webster

  Summer, Fear, Heart

  'The White Devil' (1612) act 1, sc. 2, l. 47

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, Tears, Cold

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.2.

  7 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Eagles, Crow, Together

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.161, Manchester University Press

  17 Copy quote

• Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

  John Webster

  Lust, Girdles, Whips

  1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Heaven, Strive

  John Webster (2012). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.52, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Past, Hands, Duchess

  John Webster (2014). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.24, A&C Black

  5 Copy quote

• That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

  John Webster

  Long, Political, Soldier

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.49, Manchester University Press

  4 Copy quote

• I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

  John Webster

  Long, Wages, Virtue

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.

  5 Copy quote

• Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

  John Webster

  Honesty, Heaven, Hell

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Feet, Ruins, Ancient

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.97

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Wise, Witty, Lust

  John Webster (1989). “The Duchess of Malfi”

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Husband, Spring, Law

  4 Copy quote

• I am Duchess of Malfi still.

  John Webster

  Duchess, Stills

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 146

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Webster

  Pain, Powerful, Support

  John Webster (2008). “Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Greatness, Boys, Air

  John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company

  7 Copy quote

• All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

  John Webster

  Drinking, Degrees

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.1.

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Misery, Born, Dare

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Atheist, House, Soul

  1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.

  4 Copy quote

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

  John Webster

  Horse, Men, Mind

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.76, Manchester University Press

  6 Copy quote

• Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

  John Webster

  Jest, Wit, Seems

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin