John Webster Quotes

Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

~ John Webster

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

~ John Webster

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

~ 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

Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.

~ John Webster

Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!

~ John Webster

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

~ John Webster

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

~ 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

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

~ John Webster

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

~ John Webster

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

~ John Webster

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces, they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

~ 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

O me, this place is hell.

~ John Webster

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 ourselves so fast,The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.

~ John Webster

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 in’t.

~ John Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

~ John Webster

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

~ John Webster

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

~ John Webster

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

~ John Webster