Author: John Webster
Cited by
- Sherwin B. Nuland (1)
- IN: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1995) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, American
EPIGRAPH: ...death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to take their exits.
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
- Laurie King (1)
- IN: A Grave Talent (1993) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Other sins only speak,
murder shrieks out
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
- Paul Johnston (1)
- IN: The Soul Collector (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I do haunt you still.
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
- Jonathan Howard (1)
- IN: Johannes Cabal the Detective (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
- Sara Shepard (1)
- IN: The Heiresses (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
- Mark Lawson (1)
- IN: The Deaths (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In my last will I have not much to give;
A many hungry guests have fed upon me;
...
I pray thee look thou giv'st my little boy
Some syrup for his cold, and let the girl
Say her praters, ere she sleep.
FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), NULL, UK
- Joyce Carol Oates (1)
- IN: Them (2000) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ...because we are poor
Shall we be vicious?
FROM: The White Devil, (1612), Play, UK