112 Quotes by John Webster

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.