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
best beyond crown death integrity life shall
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
men
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
merely please stars struck
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
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.
long political soldier
That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.
feet ruins ancient
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
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.
husband poverty maids
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.
shine-bright light shining
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
kings doctors physicians
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
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.
fall men unhappy
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.