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.
men ruins belief
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
men evil black
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
fall men unhappy
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
men
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
wise fate men
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
men soul body
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
ambition men madness
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
men example action
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
children men beast
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
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.
best beyond crown death integrity life shall
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
long political soldier
That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.