Quotes from John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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

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

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

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

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