English scholarship quotes Flashcards
The Taming of the Shrew quote about love -bad
‘I will be master of what is my own / She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house/ My household stuff, my field, my barn / My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.’
A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about women
‘Things base a vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath lovers mind of any judgement taste,
wings and eyes figure unheeded haste,
And therefore is love said to be a child,
because in choice he is so oft beguiled.’
Macbeth quotes about power and greed - Macbeth
‘I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ vaulting ambition which o’er leaps itself/ and falls in th’other.’
The Taming of the Shrew quote love - good
‘Luc: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art.
Luc: While you, sweet Dear, prove mistress of my heart.’
Macbeth quote about greed - Lady Macbeth
‘Out, damned spot! Out, say I!’
The Taming of the Shrew quotes about greed - Petruchio
‘If her dowry please.’
‘One right enough to be Petruchio’s wife. As wealthy is burden of my wooing dance.’
A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed/power - Demetrius
‘The object and the pleasure of mine eye Is only Helena (…) now I do wish it, love it, long for it, and evermore be true to it.’
A Midsummer Night’s Dream quote about greed/power - Oberon
‘Do you amen it, then. It lies with you. Why should Titania cross her Oberon?’
Macbeth quote about prophecy - witches
‘All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter.’
The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - induction
‘Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man. I will be pastime passing excellent.’
The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Kate
‘Belike, you mean to make a puppet of me.’
The Taming of the Shrew quote about free will - Petruchio
‘Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented that you shall be my wife, you dowry ‘greed on. And will you, nill you, I will marry you.’
Prophet Song quotes about powerlessness
‘They take something from you and replace it with silence and you’re confronted by that silence every moment and cannot live, you cease to be yourself and become a thing before this silence.’
‘Something solid has begun to come lose - it is her heart sliding like gravel.’
Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Lizzie
‘I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.’
Pride and Prejudice quote about powerlessness - Charlotte
‘In nine out of ten cases, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.’
Macbeth quotes about women - Lady Macbeth
‘Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts!
Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my purpose’
‘Come to my woman’s breasts
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.’
‘Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
Macbeth quote about women - Macbeth
‘Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.’
Macbeth quotes about women - Lady Macduff
‘Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his tittle. From whence himself does fly?’
‘loves us not He wants the natural touch, for the poor wren The most diminutive of birds, will fight Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.’
Macbeth quote for supernatural - Macbeth
‘Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.’
Macbeth quotes about supernatural - Banquo
‘or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?’
‘What! Can the devil speak true?’
Midsummer quote about the supernatural - Puck long
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends
Midsummer quote about the supernatural - Puck
‘If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.’
Midsummer quote about women - Egeus
I beg the ancient privilege of Athens:
As she is mine, I may dispose of her,
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death,
Midsummer quote about women - Hermia
‘So I will grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
Unto His Lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty’
