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Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.
— John Webster
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
— John Webster
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.
— John Webster
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
— John Webster
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
— John Quincy Adams
O me, this place is hell.
— John Webster
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions. — John Webster
Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
— John Webster
What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.
— John Webster
We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,Till pain itself make us no pain to feel. — John Webster
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
— John Webster
Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.
— John Webster
How tedious is a guilty conscience!
— John Webster
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster
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
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
— John Webster
Sometimes the Devil doth preach.
— John Webster
Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees. — John Webster
Fortune's a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,
That she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
— John Webster
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ...
— John Webster
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust — John Webster
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
— John Webster
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
— John Webster
Love mixed with fear is sweetness.
— John Webster
Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. — John Webster
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
— John Webster
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
— John Webster
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
— John Webster
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
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
— John Webster
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
— John Webster
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
— John Webster
There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil
— Robert Galbraith
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
— Daniel Webster
Are you out of your princely wits?What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil! — John Webster
Black-birds fatten best in hard weather
— John Webster
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
— John Webster
As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils. — John Webster
Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
— John Webster
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
— John Webster
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
If all my royal kindred Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps — John Webster
I am Duchess of Malfi still.
— John Webster
The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
— John Webster
The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
— John Webster
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
— John Webster
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
— John Webster
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
— John Webster
John Boehner is a friend.
— Dan Webster
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
— John Webster
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. — John Webster
What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth. — John Webster
Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.
— John Webster
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
— John Webster
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
— John Webster
And great men do great good, or else great harm.
— John Webster