112 Quotes by John Webster

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

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

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

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

When a man’s mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty...

I have long served virtue, And never ta’en wages of her.

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.