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

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
John Webster

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

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster

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

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
John Webster

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
John Webster

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster


Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
John Webster

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
John Webster

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster

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

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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 lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster