John Webster Quotes
"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire."
- John Webster
(Related: Man, Mind)
"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
- John Webster
(Related: Stars, Tennis)
"'Tis better to be fortunate than wise."
- John Webster
"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise."
- John Webster
(Related: Disguise, Lust, Witty)
"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
- John Webster
(Related: Virtue, Actions, Arguments, Man)
"Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin."
- John Webster
(Related: Sin, Sorrow)
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
- John Webster
(Related: Ambition, Blood, Lust)
"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
(Related: Gifts, Hell)
"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."
- John Webster
(Related: Life, Death, Friend, Fame, Integrity)
"In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air."
- John Webster
(Related: Greatness, Boys, Care, Quest)
"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing."
- John Webster
(Related: Heaven, Nothing)
"Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop."
- John Webster
(Related: Deals, Fortune, May, Right)
"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom."
- John Webster
(Related: Wisdom, Folly)
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
- John Webster
(Related: Crows, Eagles)
"All things do help the unhappy man to fall."
- John Webster
(Related: Help, Man)
"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
- John Webster
(Related: Devil)
"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."
- John Webster
(Related: Friend, Belief, Man, Ruin)
"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
- John Webster
(Related: Friends, Old)