Malfi quotes

Question 1

Antonio the court

Answer 1

‘some cursed example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’

Question 2

Bosola leeches

Answer 2

‘hang on their ears like horse-leeches’

Question 3

Bosola melancholy

Answer 3

‘this foul melancholy will poison all his goodness’

Question 4

Cardinal true character

Answer 4

‘observe his inward character: he is a melancholy churchman’

Question 5

Ferdinand nature

Answer 5

‘a most perverse and turbulent nature’

Question 6

The Duchess character

Answer 6

‘right noble Duchess’

Question 7

Antonio too good to be a spy

Answer 7

‘his nature is too honest for such business’

Question 8

Bosola envy

Answer 8

‘you envy those that stand above your reach’

Question 9

Ferdinand widow

Answer 9

‘lusty widow’

Question 10

The court

Answer 10

‘rank pasture’

Question 11

Ferdinand spy

Answer 11

‘your darkest actions, nay, your privat’st thoughts, will come to light’

Question 12

The Cardinal marriage

Answer 12

‘the marriage night is the entrance into some prison’

Question 13

the Duchess like a soldier

Answer 13

‘will assay this dangerous venture’

Question 14

Antonio flirting

Answer 14

‘beauteous excellence’

Question 15

Antonio ring

Answer 15

‘a saucy and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle’

Question 16

Born great

Answer 16

‘the misery of us that are born great’

Question 17

The Duchess passion

Answer 17

‘violent passions’

Question 18

Alabaster

Answer 18

'’tis not the figure cut in alabaster kneels at my husband’s tomb’

Question 19

the Duchess naive

Answer 19

‘time will easily scatter the tempest’

Question 20

Cariola the Duchess

Answer 20

‘I owe her much of pity’

Question 21

Bosola mean

Answer 21

‘abortive hedgehog’

Question 22

Bosola no ambition

Answer 22

‘I look no higher than I can reach’

Question 23

Delio old friends

Answer 23

‘old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best’

Question 24

Bosola about the Duchess being naive

Answer 24

‘she’s oft found witty, but is never wise’

Question 25

Julia is a...

Answer 25

'witty false one'

Question 26

Julia lust

Answer 26

'giddy and wild turnings in yourself'

Question 27

Women glass

Answer 27

'a man might strive to make glass malleable'

Question 28

The Cardinal love

Answer 28

'come, I'll love you wisely, that's jealously'

Question 29

Julia perch

Answer 29

'I have taken you off your melancholy perch'

Question 30

Ferdinand the Duchess slut

Answer 30

'notorious strumpet'

Question 31

Ferdinand violent

Answer 31

'of her bleeding heart I make a sponge'

Question 32

Royal blood

Answer 32

'the royal blood of Aragon and Castile, be thus attainted?'

Question 33

Ferdinand incest

Answer 33

'to see her in the shameful act of sin'

Question 34

the Duchess count Malateste

Answer 34

'he's a mere stick of sugar candy'

Question 35

Cariola affectionate

Answer 35

'she's the sprawling'st bedfellow'

Question 36

the Duchess happy

Answer 36

'when were we so happy?'

Question 37

The Duchess and Antonio love

Answer 37

'I enter'd you into my heart before you would vouchsafe to call for the keys'

Question 38

The Duchess love

Answer 38

'love mixed with fear is the sweetest'

Question 39

the Duchess like a prince

Answer 39

'whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince'

Question 40

lie justified

Answer 40

'a noble lie'

Question 41

Bosola about Antonio

Answer 41

'too honest' (also said at the start of the play)

Question 42

Antonio status

Answer 42

'basely descended'

Question 43

Bosola judging status

Answer 43

'rather to examine men's pedigrees rather than virtues?'

Question 44

Ferdinand Antonio's status

Answer 44

'a slave that only smelled of ink and counters'

Question 45

Antonio power

Answer 45

'yes, you see what power lightens in great men's breath'

Question 46

Antonio father

Answer 46

'be a good mother to your little ones'

Question 47

If the Duchess was a man to Bosola

Answer 47

'were I a man I'd beat that counterfeit face into thy other'

Question 48

the Duchess fish

Answer 48

'our value never can be truly known till in the fisher's basket we be shown'

Question 49

Duchess takes her imprisonment...

Answer 49

'nobly'

Question 50

The Duchess' crime

Answer 50

'you were too much i'th'light'

Question 51

the Duchess thinks the world is a...

Answer 51

'tedious theatre'

Question 52

Duchess asserts authority

Answer 52

'I am Duchess of Malfi still'

Question 53

Duchess maternal

Answer 53

'giv'st my little boy some syrup for his cold, and let the girl say her prayers'

Question 54

Bosola condemns Ferdinand and the Cardinal

Answer 54

'a pair of hearts that are hollow graves, rotten, and rotting others'

Question 55

Bosola awakening

Answer 55

'I am angry with myself now that I wake'

Question 56

Bosola crying

Answer 56

'where were these penitent fountains while she was living?'

Question 57

Julia manipulating the Cardinal

Answer 57

'wind my tongue about his heart like a skein of silk'

Question 58

Cured

Answer 58

'black deeds must be cured with death'

Question 59

the Cardinal guilt

Answer 59

'how tedious is a guilty conscience'

Question 60

Bosola balance

Answer 60

'when thou kill'dst thy sister thou took'st from Justice her most equal balance'

Question 61

Bosola revenge

Answer 61

'revenge for the Duchess of Malfi'

Question 62

the Duchess suicide

Answer 62

'I'll fast myself to death'