112 Quotes by John Webster

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

Affliction is not misery. Misery is the abasement of spirit which comes from the loss of God and good.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

L'humain, comme l'épice, ne se révèle que broyé

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!Of all deaths, the violent death is best;For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.

I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits; and 'tis foundThey go on such strange geometrical hinges,You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake

Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water.