Quotes from John Webster

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young - Duchess. Act 4, Sc.2.

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

You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

Right! There are plots. Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't! How long have I beheld the devil in crystal! Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice, With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers, To my eternal ruin. Woman to man Is either a god, or a wolf.

If all my royal kindred Lay in my way unto this marriage, I'ld make them my low foot-steps

Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me

For all our wit and reading brings us to a truer sense of sorrow.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.

L'humain, comme l'épice, ne se révèle que broyé

for places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man's head lies at that man's foot, and so lower and lower.

One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things.

Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge, Which dwells but in the tongue!

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

To say that we are under grace is to say that the final truth of our lives, the final authority by which we are made and judged, is Jesus Christ the mercy of God. If

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

FERDINAND: Look, what's that follows me? MALATESTE: Nothing, my lord. FERDINAND: Yes. MALATESTE: 'Tis your shadow. FERDINAND: Stay it; let it not haunt me. MALATESTE: Impossible, if you move, and the sun shine. FERDINAND: I will throttle it. [Throws himself upon his shadow.]