Quotes - The Duchess of Malfi Flashcards
Duchess: ‘we are forced to woo…
because non dare woo us’
Duchess: ‘I winked and…
chose a husband’
Duchess: ‘heavens gates are not so highly arched..
they that enter their must go upon their knees’
Antonio describes Ferdinand: ‘a most perverse..
and turbulent nature’
Antonio: ‘these words should..
be mine’
Antonio: ‘ambition madam..
is a great mans madness’
Ferdinand: ‘I could..
‘I am grown
kill her now’
mad with it’
Ferdinand: ‘Whether we fall..
‘my wildfire’
by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust’
Ferdinand: ‘shameful..
act of sin’
Ferdinand: ‘strong thighed..
bargeman’
Duchess: ‘I am The..
Duchess of Malfi still’
Cardinal about Julia: ‘Giddy and …
wild turnings’
Cardinal: ‘you cannot make me..
a cuckold’
Cardinal: ‘you are a widow..
‘I would not have her…
you know already what a man is’
marry again’
Cariola: ‘If you kill me..
now I am damned’
Julia: ‘it’s too big a secret…
for me to keep’
Bosola: ‘some of you give entertainment for..
pure love; but more for precious reward’
Bosola: ‘the man I would have
saved above mine own’
Duchess: ‘diamonds are of most value..
when they have passed through most jewellers hands’
Cardnial to Ferdinand: ‘I can be angry…
without this rupture’
Cardinal: ‘tis more easy..
to tie knots than it is to unloose them’
Bosola: “he and his brother are like
Plum trees that grow crooked”
Ferdinand: “I would not
Have her marry again”
Ferdinand describes the Duchess as a
“Lusty widow”
