Quotes by John Webster

John Webster

English dramatist

Lived from: 1580 - 1634

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

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• Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

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• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.

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• There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

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• There's nothing of so infinite vexation as man's own thoughts.

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• There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.

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• We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

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• We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

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• When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• tennis-balls
• deformed
• infinite
• vexation
• thoughts
• evermore

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