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18 quotes by John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped with that of William Shakespeare.
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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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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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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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

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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

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

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