A collection of quotes and thoughts by John Webster on playwright, death, devil, diamonds, dust, cut, love, theology, writing-style, protestant, witty, wise and strange.
26 John Webster Quotes On Life, Ambition, Wisdom And Friendship
John Webster was an illustrious English Jacobean dramatist, distinguished for his tragedies ‘The Duchess Of Malfi’ and ‘The White Devil’. His thoughts, works and dramas are considered to be the paragons of the early 17th century. It is known that he was also capable of writing comedies, but he gained recognition for writing tragedies. His career and life overlapped that of William Shakespeare. Though his dramas and plays were repudiated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they came to be considered as ingenious work by the twentieth century critics. We have rounded some popular quotable quotes and sayings by John Webster which have been curated from his works, plays, dramas, thoughts and life. Zoom through the quotes and thoughts by John Webster.
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 drowned himself in’t.
Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.
We had need to borrow that fantastic glass,invented by Galileo the Florentine
To view another spacious world in the moon
and look to find a constant woman there
If all my royal kindred
Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps
John Webster
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake
