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

  Fall, Ambition, Cutting

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

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• When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

  John Webster

  Being Different, Liberty, Different

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• Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

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  Dog, Bark, Cowardly

  'The White Devil' (1612) act 3, sc. 1, l. 163

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

  John Webster

  Men, Example, Action

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

  John Webster

  Health, Gold, Hours

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245

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• Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

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  Men

  1612 The White Devil, act 4, sc.2.

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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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  Children, Men, Beast

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

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• The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

  John Webster

  Soul, Body, Stills

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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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  Play, World, Theater

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

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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.

  John Webster

  Men, Soul, Body

  John Webster, Alexander Dyce (1877). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.108

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

  John Webster

  Fashion, Blow, Political

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

  John Webster

  Children, Sorrow, Sin

  John Webster (1830). “The Works of John Webster: Now First Collected”, p.316

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

  John Webster

  Friends, Breasts, Stills

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.84, Manchester University Press

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• Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

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  Sweetness

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• How tedious is a guilty conscience!

  John Webster

  Guilt, Tedious, Conscience

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.181, Manchester University Press

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• Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

  John Webster

  Blood, Water, Heaven

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.8, Manchester University Press

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• Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

  John Webster

  Motivational, Smart, Knowledge Is Power

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

  John Webster

  Running, Fire, Light

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

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

  John Webster

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Wine, Soldier, Vineyards

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

  John Webster

  Wise, Fate, Men

  Thomas Kyd, ANON ANON, John Ford, John Webster (2014). “Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil”, p.554, A&C Black

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• Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

  John Webster

  Ambition, Men, Madness

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

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• All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

  John Webster

  Fall, Men, Unhappy

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.82

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• For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

  John Webster

  Wisdom, Folly

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

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

  John Webster

  Men, Ruins, Belief

  John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

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