“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
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“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”
Act V, scene v.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)
Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.”
Act IV, scene ii. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii, scene 2.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
John Webster Quotes about men
“But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.”
Act V, scene iv.
The White Devil (1612)
“Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.”
Act V, scene vi.
The White Devil (1612)
John Webster Quotes
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
The White Devil (1612)
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
“Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.”
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Kenneth Tynan, review of The Duchess of Malfi at the Aldwych Theatre (1960), from Tynan Left and Right (1967).
