John Webster Quotes

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

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.

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.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

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.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

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.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.