Duchess Quotes Flashcards
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‘Noble’
Marrying twice
‘Most luxurious will wed twice’
Wilderness
‘I am going into a wilderness where I shall find not path nor friendly clue’
Woo
‘We are forced to work because none the woo us’
Spirit
‘Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her I know not but it shows a fearful madness I owe her much pity’
Lips
“Let me seal your lips forever “
Labour
“Short winded “
Apricots
“They taste of musk “
“I fear I am undone “
Breeding
“Apparent signs of breeding “
Arranged marriage
“Strumpet “
“Count Malateste “
Ferdinand lies
“Fixed love would strongly excuse extenuate nay deny faults “
Love and fear
“Love mixed with fear is sweetest “
Prince
“Whether I am doomed to live or die I can do you both like a prince “
Reputation
“My reputation is safe“
Relic
“Cased up like a holy relic “
Religion
“Religion her Ridinghood “
Unhappy men
“All things do help th’unhappy man to fall “
Roses
“another pitfall that strewed over with roseS”
Death or departure
“I know not what is best to see you dead or part with you “
Duchess children
“Not understanding thy misery “
Fish
“Our value never can be truly known till in the Fishers basket we be shown “
Oppressors will
“Bent to all sways of the oppressors will “
Birds
“Birds… They may choose their mates and Carol their sweet pleasures to the spring “
Imprisonment
“Bears…Nobly “
Light
“You were too much in the light”
Heaven and earth
“There is not between heaven and earth one wish I stay for after this “
Portia
“Portia I count this world a tedious theatre “
Madness
“Reason and silence make me stark mad “
Nightingale
“The Nightingale never live long in cages “
Madman
“We will sing like swans to welcome death “
Deathbed
“Thou speaks as if I lay upon my death bed “
Obedience in my blood
“I have so much obedience in my blood I wish it in their veins to do them good “
Fear of death
“Affrights me not “
Maternal
“Give my boy some syrup “
Forgive
“I forgive them “
Excellent company
“Knowing to meet such excellent company in the other world “
Deaths doors
“Death hath 10thousand doors “
Pull heaven
“Pull down heaven upon me “
Mandragora
“Search for mandragora to make me sleep “
Feed and quiet
“Then they may feed in quiet “
Disembodied voice
“So hollow and so dismal “
Spirit voice
“Many have supposed it is a spirit “
Repeating Antonio
“Oh fly your fate”
“Thou art a dead thing “
