Quotes by John Webster

“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry”

“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment”

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

“Lifes the greates torture sould feel in hell, In hell: that they must live, and cannot die.”

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

“Integrity of life is fames best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.”

“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”

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

“That friend a great mans ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.”

“When a mans mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.”

“Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.”

“They pass through whirlpools, and deep woes do shun, who the event weigh, ere the actions done.”

“Though lust do masque in neer so strange disguise shes oft found witty, but is never wise.”

“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest”

“With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.”

“A politician is the devils quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.”

“Cover her face, Mine eyes dazzle, She died so young”

“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.”

“Men cease to bulid where the foundation sinks.”