John Webster famous quotes

04-17-2025

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
-- John Webster

#Fall #Ambition #Cutting
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
-- John Webster

#Friends #Breasts #Stills
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
-- John Webster

#Being Different #Liberty #Different
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.
-- John Webster

#Dog #Bark #Cowardly
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
-- John Webster

#Health #Gold #Hours
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
-- John Webster

#Men
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
-- John Webster

#Children #Men #Beast
The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
-- John Webster

#Soul #Body #Stills
I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.
-- John Webster

#Play #World #Theater
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
-- John Webster

#Men #Example #Action
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

#Men #Soul #Body
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
-- John Webster

#Fashion #Blow #Political
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
-- John Webster

#Children #Sorrow #Sin
How tedious is a guilty conscience!
-- John Webster

#Guilt #Tedious #Conscience
Love mixed with fear is sweetness.
-- John Webster

#Sweetness
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 Webster

#Blood #Water #Heaven
Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.
-- John Webster

#Running #Fire #Light
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
-- John Webster

#Motivational #Smart #Knowledge Is Power
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 Webster

#Wine #Soldier #Vineyards
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
-- John Webster

#Fall #Men #Unhappy
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
-- John Webster

#Wise #Fate #Men
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
-- John Webster

#Wisdom #Folly
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
-- John Webster

#Men #Ruins #Belief
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
-- John Webster

#Husband #Maids #Poverty
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
-- John Webster

#Men #Evil #Black

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