Quotes Flashcards
The Aragonian brethren description- Bosola
‘Like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools; they are rich and o’erladen but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on then’
Ruler as a soldier- Castruchio
‘Realm is never long quiet where the ruler is a soldier’
Laugh- Ferdinand
‘Laugh when I laugh’
Her sleeps- Antonio
‘Her very sleeps are more in heaven than other ladies shrifts’
Honest nature-Cardinal
‘Her nature is too honest for such business’- Cardinal
Diamonds -Duchess
‘Diamonds are of most value they say, that have passed through most jewellers hands’
Whores-Ferdinand
‘Whores by that rule are precious’
Wooing- Duchess
‘We are forced too woo because none dare woo us’
Reason- Cardinal
‘You fly beyond your reason’
Milk and blood- Ferdinand
‘Tis not your whores milk that shall quench my wild fire but your whores blood’
Witchcraft in blood- Ferdinand
‘The witchcraft that lies in her rank blood’
Misrule- Duchess
‘You are a Lord of Misrule’
Doomed to live or die- Duchess
‘Whether I am doomed to live or die I can do both like a prince’
Religious jesting- Duchess
‘I do not like this jesting with religion’
Antonio’s kiss- Duchess
‘Your kiss is colder than I have seen a holy anchorite give to a dead man’s skull’
Malfi still- Duchess
‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’
Heavens arches- Duchess
‘Heaven’s gates are not so highly arched as princes’ palaces: they that enter there must go upon their knees’
Young wolves- Ferdinand
‘The death of young wolves is never to be pitied’
Ambition, blood or lust- Ferdinand
‘Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’
Cardinals death
‘Let me be laid by and never thought of’
