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John Webster Quotes

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

Tags: bribe, hell

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

John Webster

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

Tags: alone, together, fly

About Author
John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's.

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

John Webster

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

Tags: life, favourite, tragedy

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

John Webster

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

Tags: best, friendship, friends

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

John Webster

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

Tags: social

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Tags: wisdom

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Tags: luck

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

John Webster

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Tags: light