John Webster > Quotes

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster

“Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

“بخت به راستی یک روسپی است:اگر بخششی کند ذره ذره می دهد تا یکباره باز ستاند.”
― John Webster

“Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.”
― John Webster

“What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?”
― John Webster

“I am Duchess of Malfi still.”
― John Webster

“Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flow'rs do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Call unto his funeral dole
The ant, the field-mouse and the mole,
To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm,
And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm,
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Let holy Church receive him duly,
Since he paid the church-tithes truly.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

“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

“Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

“Are you out of your princely wits?"

What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi