John Webster Quotes and Sayings
- 1
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 2
All things do help the unhappy man to fall. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 4
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 5
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 6
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 7
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 8
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 9
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 10
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 11
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 12
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 13
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 14
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 15
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 16
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 17
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 18
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑
- 19
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster | Refcard PDF ↑