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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.