John Webster quotes
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“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press
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“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.84, Manchester University Press
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“When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.”
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“Cowardly dogs bark loudest.”
-- John WebsterSource : 'The White Devil' (1612) act 3, sc. 1, l. 163
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“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245
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“Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.”
-- John WebsterSource : 1612 The White Devil, act 4, sc.2.
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“See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.”
-- John WebsterSource : 1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.
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“The soul was never put in the body to stand still.”
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“I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”
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“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 WebsterSource : John Webster, Alexander Dyce (1877). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.108
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“A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.”
-- John WebsterSource : 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.
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“Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster (1830). “The Works of John Webster: Now First Collected”, p.316
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“How tedious is a guilty conscience!”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.181, Manchester University Press
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“Love mixed with fear is sweetness.”
-- John WebsterSource : 1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.
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“Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.8, Manchester University Press
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“Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.”
-- John WebsterSource : 1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.
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“Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!”
-- John Webster#Motivational Quotes #Smart Quotes #Knowledge Is Power Quotes
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“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.”
-- John WebsterSource : 'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2
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“All things do help the unhappy man to fall.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.82
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“Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.”
-- John WebsterSource : Thomas Kyd, ANON ANON, John Ford, John Webster (2014). “Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil”, p.554, A&C Black
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“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.76, Manchester University Press
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“That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.”
-- John WebsterSource : John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster
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“Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.”
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“Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.”
-- John Webster
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