Despiseth Webster Quotes

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes. ~ Jean Webster

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy. ~ Daniel Webster

If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love. ~ Charles Webster Leadbeater

Your greatest chance of happiness lies in creating for yourself a library as soon as is possible - Mr Bennet ~ Emma Campbell Webster

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. ~ Daniel Webster

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below? ~ David Kenyon Webster

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. ~ Noah Webster

Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way. ~ John Webster

The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it. ~ Dan Webster

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ~ Daniel Webster

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil ~ Robert Galbraith

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. ~ Ralph Webster

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism. ~ Daniel Webster

Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity. ~ Daniel Webster

It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However, ~ Jean Webster

Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie's ~ Jean Webster

Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.
Sheila turns her head, "Go slowly and be careful," she says. ~ Anita Shreve

I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball. ~ Ben Webster

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully. ~ Andy Webster

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains. ~ Jean Webster

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. ~ Daniel Webster

O me, this place is hell. ~ John Webster

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine. ~ Alison Krauss

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

Crazy, yes. Overwhelming, definitely. Obsessed, you bet. But evil? Never. ~ K. Webster

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. ~ John Webster

The farmers are the founders of civilization. ~ Daniel Webster

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head. ~ Noah Webster

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever. ~ Daniel Webster

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own. ~ Daniel Webster

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation. ~ Jean Webster

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation. ~ Daniel Webster

It's a relief not having to thank Somebody for every mouthful you eat. (I dare say I'm blasphemous; but you'd be, too, if you'd offered as much obligatory thanks as I have.) ~ Jean Webster

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong. ~ Randy Russell

As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils. ~ John Webster

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. ~ Noah Webster