Quotes by John Webster

John Webster

John Webster

English dramatist

Lived from: 1580 - 1634

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

  • 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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  • 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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