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
men
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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.
best beyond crown death integrity life shall
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
eagles crow together
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
duchess stills
I am Duchess of Malfi still.
sweetness
Love mixed with fear is sweetness.
jest wit seems
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
drinking degrees
All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.
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.
merely please stars struck
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.