Quotations Flashcards
‘Some cursed example poison’t near the head
Death and disease through the whole land spread’
‘The only court
Gall’
9they are rich and o’erladen with
Fruit, but none but crows pies, and caterpillars feed on them’
‘Flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists …
And a thousand such political monsters’
‘All honesty
Out of fashion’
‘The law to him like
A foul black con web to a spider’
‘For the devil
Speaks in them’
‘Let all sweet ladies break their flatte’ring glasses
And dress themselves in her’
‘Diamonds are of most value, they say,
That have passed through the most hands’
‘I’ll never
Marry’
‘I’d loath to see it
Rusty’
‘Farewell
Lusty widow’
‘I winked and
Chose a husband’
‘ so please your beauteous
Excellence’
‘I am making my will as
‘Tis fit princes should’
‘’Twer strange if there was
No will in you to marry again’
‘I vowed never to part with it but
To my second husband’
‘This godly roof of yours is too
Low built’
‘Ambition madam
Is a great mans madness’
‘Oh my
Unworthiness’
‘We are forced to woo
Because none dare woo us’
‘You have left me heartless
Mine is in your bosom’
‘Lay a sword between us
Keep us chaste’
‘How greedily she
Eats them’
‘The green fruit and my stomach are not friends
How they swell me!’
‘She’s exposed to the worst of torture,
Pain and fear’
‘Old friends, like old swords
Still are trusted best’
‘Cover her face;
Mine eyes dazzle: she died young’
‘Talk to me quickly, or my imagination
Will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin’
‘You fly beyond your
Reason’
The duchess’s Epitaph
‘She died young’
When does the duchess die?
Act 4 scene 2
When does Antonio die
Act 5 scene 4
‘A strong
Thighed bargeman’
‘Of her beating heart
I make a sponge’
‘A sister damned she’s loose
In the hilts’
‘The royal blood of
Aragon’
‘I have taken you off
Your melancholy perch’
‘I’ll give thee
Pardon’
‘Heavens gates are not so highly arched…
Princes must go upon their knees’
I am chained to
Endure all your tyranny
Thou art not mad sure
Dost know me?
(Bosola) Thou art a great woman sure for riot
Begins to sit on thy forehead
I have so much
Obedience in my blood’
