With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.
More Quotes from John Webster:
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent nor hours laid out in harmless merrimentJohn Webster
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. . . . 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. Tis just like a summer birdcage 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.
John Webster
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
Other sins only speak murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
John Webster
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: pheasants, quailsLook at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.
Paul Reubens
We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.
Dave Mason
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
William Devane