Quotes from John Webster, The White Devil

O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in't.

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

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.