John Webster Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Webster
John Webster Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.
O that I were a man, or that I had power
To execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions.
To execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions.
What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.
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.
Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.
Fortune's a right whore:
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.
If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Are you out of your princely wits?
What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!
What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
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.
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.