112 Quotes by John Webster

And great men do great good, or else great harm.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.

Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly aren’t saved by belief. We’re saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believe—by the one whom we confess as we believe. In a real sense, our belief is nothing in and of itself. It’s simply a looking to him, a listening to him, in which we are wholly absorbed by that which we see and hear.