John Webster, The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona, Act V, scene 6.
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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
— John Webster on Guilt
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Guilt" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 345-46.)
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About John Webster
John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.
About John Webster
John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.
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