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
horse men mind
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
summer fear heart
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
long political soldier
That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.
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.
long wages virtue
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
misery born dare
The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
motivational smart knowledge-is-power
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!
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.
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.