Quotes by John Webster

John Webster

A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Blow

Fashion

Political

A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish ‘do not have the right sort of brain’ can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.

Pain

Powerful

Support

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

Degrees

Drinking

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Fall

Men

Unhappy

Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness.

Ambition

Madness

Men

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul’s slaughter-house? Oh, the curse’ d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o’er.

Atheist

House

Soul

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

Bark

Cowardly

Dog

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Blood

Heaven

Water

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers’ hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

Duchess

Hands

Past

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Crow

Eagles

Together

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Conscience

Cowardly

Crow

Cutting

Dare

Degrees

Different

Doctors

Dog

Drinking

Duchess

Eagles

Evil

Example

Fall

Fashion

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Fear

Feet

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Folly

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Guilt

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Quotes by John Webster

John Webster

A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness.

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul’s slaughter-house? Oh, the curse’ d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o’er.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers’ hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

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