Famous John Webster Quotes

  • O me, this place is hell. – John Webster

    O me, this place is hell.– John Webster

  • 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

    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

  • Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust – John Webster

    Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust– John Webster

  • You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,Enters the devil murder. – John Webster

    You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,Enters the devil murder.– John Webster

  • As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils. – John Webster

    As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.– John Webster

  • Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop. – John Webster

    Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.– John Webster

  • Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light. – John Webster

    Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.– John Webster

  • Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue! – John Webster

    Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!– John Webster

  • O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions. – John Webster

    O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.– John Webster

  • Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. – John Webster

    Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.– John Webster