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Quotes from The White Devil — John Webster

d. 1630 England

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Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.

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There’s nothing sooner dry than women’s tears.

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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.

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'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

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All his reverend wit
Lies in his wardrobe.

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Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.

The White Devil (1612)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Webster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.