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
children men beast
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
children sorrow sin
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
blood water heaven
Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
friends breasts stills
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
being-different liberty different
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty....
fall ambition cutting
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
men ruins belief
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
past hands duchess
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
men evil black
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
wisdom folly
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
play world theater
I account this world a tedious theater, For I do play a part in 't 'gainst my will.