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John Webster

Geburtstag: 1578
Todesdatum: 1634

John Webster war ein englischer Dramatiker.

Zitate John Webster

„Der Ruhm ist wie das Glühwürmchen: Er leuchtet hell von Ferne, aber aus der Nähe betrachtet spendet er weder Wärme noch Licht.“

— John Webster
Duchess of Malfi, 1623

„Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.“

— John Webster
Act V, scene v.

„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“

— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Act IV, scene ii.

„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.“

— John Webster
Act V, scene iv.

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

— John Webster
Act V, scene iv.

„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.“

— John Webster
Act III, scene ii.

„Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?
Sin their conception, their birth, weeping:
Their life, a general mist of error,
Their death, a hideous storm of terror.“

— John Webster
Act IV, scene ii.

„I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.“

— John Webster
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.

„Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.“

— John Webster
The Devil's Law Case (1623).

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

— John Webster
Act V, scene vi.

„Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.“

— John Webster
Act IV, scene ii.

„I saw him going the way of all flesh.“

— John Webster
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii.

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

— John Webster
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.

„Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.“

— John Webster
Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.

„I dare truly and boldly say, that one years exercise therein to ingenious spirits, under able Masters, will produce more real and true fruit, than the studying Aristotelian Philosophy hath brought forth in many centuries. O that the Schools therefore would leave their idle, and fruitless speculations, and not be too proud to put their hands to the coals and furnace, where they might find ocular experiments to confute their fopperies, and produce effects that would be beneficial to all posterities.“

— John Webster
Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.

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

— John Webster
Act IV, scene ii.

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Zitate John Webster

„Der Ruhm ist wie das Glühwürmchen: Er leuchtet hell von Ferne, aber aus der Nähe betrachtet spendet er weder Wärme noch Licht.“

„Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.“

„Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.“

„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.“

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

„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.“

„Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?
Sin their conception, their birth, weeping:
Their life, a general mist of error,
Their death, a hideous storm of terror.“

„I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.“

„Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.“

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

„Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.“

„I saw him going the way of all flesh.“

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

„Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.“

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

Die heutige Jubiläen

Jürgen Habermas7

Isabella Rossellini1

Carmine Crocco

Tasha Tudor

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William Shakespeare124

Henry De Montherlant9

Friedrich Dürrenmatt28

Henrik Ibsen15

Georg Rollenhagen13