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John Webster
English
Playwright
About the author
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Men
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Man
#Mind
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Stars
#Tennis
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Lust
#Disguise
#Witty
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Man
#Virtue
#Actions
#Arguments
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Sorrow
#Sin
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Ambition
#Lust
#Blood
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Hell
#Gifts
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Life
#Death
#Friend
#Fame
#Integrity
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Boys
#Care
#Greatness
#Quest
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Nothing
#Heaven
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Right
#May
#Deals
#Fortune
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Wisdom
#Folly
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Crows
#Eagles
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Man
#Help
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Devil
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Man
#Belief
#Friend
#Ruin
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster,
English
Playwright
#Friends
#Old