Jacobean Drama Quotes

“Heaven-gates are not so highly arched
As princes' palaces; they that enter there
Must go upon their knees.”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

“The Jacobeans had a sure grasp of catastrophe. They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History