Quotes by John Webster

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust”

“What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.”

“O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.”

“Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.”

“Believing can mean something a good deal less than certainty. I believe the bus will come in five minutes, but I cant be sure. Or sometimes it can mean the kind of knowledge which is acquired after...”

“Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly arent saved by belief. Were saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believeby the one whom we confess as we believe. In a re...”

“Take it for words. O womans poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!”

“Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.”

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

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust”

“Why do we tell lies? We lie because the truth is too painful or too shameful for us to face, or because the truth is simply inconvenient and has to be suppressed before its allowed to disturb us. W...”

“Fortunes a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.”

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

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

“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”

“O me, this place is hell.”

“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 our...”

“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself int.”

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

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