All Quotes by John Webster
“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”
“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”
“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.”
“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.”
“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.”
“I saw him going the way of all flesh.”
“Vain the ambition of kingsAnd weave but nets to catch the wind.”
“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?Hath drown'd himself in 't.”
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
“Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,The friendless bodies of unburied men.”
“But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.”
“Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.”
“Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,But looked to near have neither heat nor light.”
“Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?Their death, a hideous storm of terror.”
“I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.”
“Heaven-gates are not so highly archedMust go upon their knees.”
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”