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John Webster
16 quotes
“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw him going the way of all flesh.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.”
John Webster (1578–1634) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil's Law Case (1623).
“I dare truly and boldly say, that one years exercise therein to ingenious spirits, under able Masters, will produce more real and true fruit, than the studying Aristotelian Philosophy hath brought forth in many centuries. O that the Schools therefore would leave their idle, and fruitless speculations, and not be too proud to put their hands to the coals and furnace, where they might find ocular experiments to confute their fopperies, and produce effects that would be beneficial to all posterities.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.
“'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Ben Jonson
“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me? So may you blame some fair and crystal river For that some melancholic, distracted man Hath drown'd himself in 't.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Ben Jonson
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Ben Jonson
“Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Ben Jonson
“But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a hideous storm of terror.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”
John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source