Duchess Key Quotes Flashcards
(Antonio on Ferdinand, Act 1) “A most perverse and turbulent nature; …
… what appears in him mirth is merely outside.”
(Duchess, Act 1) “If all my royal kindred …
… Lay in my way unto this marriage / I’d mark them my low footsteps.”
(Duchess to Antonio, Act 1) “‘twas my wedding ring, …
… And I did vow never to part with it / But to my second husband.”
(Ferdinand to Duchess, Act 1) “Such weddings may more properly be said …
… To be executed than celebrated.”
(Ferdinand to Bosola, Act 1) “She’s a young widow, …
… I would not have her marry again.”
(Duchess to Antonio, Act 1) “Make not your heart so dead …
… a piece of flesh / To fear more than to love me.”
** (Bosola to Cardinal, Act 1) “I fell …
… into the galleys in your service.”
** (Bosola, Act 1) “I am …
… your creature.”
** (Duchess, Act 1) “Diamonds are of most value, …
… they say, when they have past through most jewellers’ hands.”
** (Duchess to Ferdinand, Act 1) “This is …
… terrible good council.”
(Ferdinand, Act 1) “lusty …
… widow”
(Duchess, Act 1) “Shall this …
… move me?”
(Duchess, Act 1) “This is flesh and blood sir, …
… ‘tis not the figure cut in alabaster.”
(Antonio about Duchess, Act 1) “All her particular worth grows to this sum, …
… she stains the time past, lights the come.”
(Cardinal about Antonio, Act 1) “You are deceived in him, …
… His nature is too honest for this business.”
(Ferdinand, Act 2) “here it shall stick …
… Till of her bleeding heat I make sponge / To wipe it out.”
(Cardinal, Act 2) “Shall our blood, …
… The royal blood of Aragon and Castile, / Be thus attainted?”
(Ferdinand, Act 2) “a sister damned, …
… she’s loose i’th’hills. Grown a notorious strumpet!”
** (Bosola, Act 2) “Man stands amazed to see his deformity …
… in any other creature but himself.”
** (Antonio to Bosola, Act 2) “You are …
… an impudent snake.”
(Duchess, Act 2) “Lights to my chamber. …
… Oh, good Antonio, I fear I am undone.”
(Duchess, Act 3) “Why should only I / Of all the other princes of the world …
… be cased up like a holy relic?”
(Duchess, Act 3) “I am armed against misery, …
… Bent to all sways of the oppressor’s will.”
(Ferdinand, Act 3) “Her guilt treads on …
… Hot burning coulters.”
(Duchess, Act 3) “‘Tis welcome …
… For now, whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince.”
(Ferdinand, Act 3) “I will …
… never see you more.”
(Duchess, Act 3) “They have done wisely. …
… This puts me in mind of death.”
(Duchess, Act 4) “I account for this world and tedious theatre …
… For i do play apart in’t against my will.”
(Ferdinand, Act 4) “Damn her, that body of hers …
… While that my blood ran pure in’t was more worth / Than that which thou wouldst comfort, called a soul.”
(Ferdinand, Act 4) “Cover her face; …
… Mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
(Ferdinand, Act 4) “Let me see her face again. …
… Why didst not thou pity her?”
(Duchess, Act 4) “What would it pleasure me …
… to have my throat cut / With diamonds?”
(Ferdinand, Act 4) “This darkness …
… suits you well.”
(Ferdinand, Act 4) “Where shall thou find this judgement registered …
Unless in hell?”
(Julia, Act 5) “What an excellent shape …
… hath that fellow!”
(Cardinal, Act 5) “How tedious …
… is a guilty conscience!”
(Bosola, Act 5) “The best part of my life …
… Hath done me best service.”
(Bosola, Act 5) “We are merely the stars’ tennis ball,
… struck and banded / Which way please them.”
(Bosola, Act 5) “O penitence, let me truly taste thy cup, …
… That throws men down, only to raise them up.”
(Ferdinand, Act 5) “My sister! …
… Oh my sister, there’s the cause on’t!”
(Cardinal about Bosola, Act 5) “When he hath served my turn, …
… He dies.”
(Bosola, Act 5) “Mercy upon me, …
… what a fatal judgement / Hath fallen upon this Ferdinand.”
(Antonio, Act 5) “Echo, I will not talk with thee, …
… For thou art a dead thing.”
