Quotes - The Duchess of Malfi

Question 1

Duchess: ‘we are forced to woo…

Answer 1

because non dare woo us’

Question 2

Duchess: ‘I winked and…

Answer 2

chose a husband’

Question 3

Duchess: ‘heavens gates are not so highly arched..

Answer 3

they that enter their must go upon their knees’

Question 4

Antonio describes Ferdinand: ‘a most perverse..

Answer 4

and turbulent nature’

Question 5

Antonio: ‘these words should..

Answer 5

be mine’

Question 6

Antonio: ‘ambition madam..

Answer 6

is a great mans madness’

Question 7

Ferdinand: ‘I could..

‘I am grown

Answer 7

kill her now’

mad with it’

Question 8

Ferdinand: ‘Whether we fall..

‘my wildfire’

Answer 8

by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’

Question 9

Ferdinand: ‘shameful..

Answer 9

act of sin’

Question 10

Ferdinand: ‘strong thighed..

Answer 10

bargeman’

Question 11

Duchess: ‘I am The..

Answer 11

Duchess of Malfi still’

Question 12

Cardinal about Julia: ‘Giddy and …

Answer 12

wild turnings’

Question 13

Cardinal: ‘you cannot make me..

Answer 13

a cuckold’

Question 14

Cardinal: ‘you are a widow..

‘I would not have her…

Answer 14

you know already what a man is’

marry again’

Question 15

Cariola: ‘If you kill me..

Answer 15

now I am damned’

Question 16

Julia: ‘it’s too big a secret…

Answer 16

for me to keep’

Question 17

Bosola: ‘some of you give entertainment for..

Answer 17

pure love; but more for precious reward’

Question 18

Bosola: ‘the man I would have

Answer 18

saved above mine own’

Question 19

Duchess: ‘diamonds are of most value..

Answer 19

when they have passed through most jewellers hands’

Question 20

Cardnial to Ferdinand: ‘I can be angry…

Answer 20

without this rupture’

Question 21

Cardinal: ‘tis more easy..

Answer 21

to tie knots than it is to unloose them’

Question 22

Bosola: “he and his brother are like

Answer 22

Plum trees that grow crooked”

Question 23

Ferdinand: “I would not

Answer 23

Have her marry again”

Question 24

Ferdinand describes the Duchess as a

Answer 24

“Lusty widow”

Question 25

Bosola: “I am angry

Answer 25

With myself now”