John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.
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“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)
“The very fact that there are experts may be intimidating; we hate to think that there must be one best way to handle any situation as parents and that we don’t know what it is. So as we get more and more advice we seem less and less sure of what we ought to do for our children.”
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“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.”
—John Webster (1580–1625)