John Webster
John Webster
John Websterwas 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 William Shakespeare's...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
atheist house soul
Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.
drinking degrees
All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.
pain powerful support
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.
kings doctors physicians
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
shine-bright light shining
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
husband poverty maids
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
feet ruins ancient
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
husband spring law
How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.
honesty heaven being-honest
Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.
being-different liberty different
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty....
best beyond crown death integrity life shall
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
carry evermore gifts good worst
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
merely please stars struck
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
men
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.