Quotes by Webster, John




John Webster (c. 1578 - c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage..

"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."

Webster, John on hell    Share

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"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."

Webster, John on insignificance    Share

"There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger."

Webster, John on anger    Share

"Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop."

Webster, John on luck    Share

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