18 John Marston Quotes

John Marston quotes

1. Foul canker of fair virtuous action, Vile blaster of the freshest blooms on earth, Envys abhorred child, Detraction, I here expose, to thy all-tainting breath, The issue of my brain: snarl, rail, bark, bite, Know that my spirit scorns Detraction's spite.

2. Who winks and shuts his apprehension up.

3. For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs, And chase it through the sky.

4. Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

5. Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.

6. Marston is a writer of great merit, who rose to tragedy from the ground of comedy, and whose forte was not sympathy, either with the stronger or softer emotions, but an impatient scorn and bitter indignation against the vices and follies of men, which vented itself either in comic irony or in lofty invective. He was properly a satirist.

1. Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

2. It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

3. You'll be the first to know when I kill you, I promise.

4. All the fatt's in the fire.

5. If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

6. You want me to shoot you in the head right now for that poor girl?

7. I've met some sick bastards in my life, Seth, but you...you're special.

8. Irish, I've met enough men like you to last me a lifetime!

9. He ain't gonna to be no frontier gunslinger, killing and running in no gang though. That way's over. Railroads and government and motor cars and everything gone and done away with all of that.

10. I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

11. You and West Dickens are so crooked you could swallow nails and spit out corkscrews.

12. Men are born, and then they're formed.