The Duchess of Malfi Flashcards
“Wether we fall by ambition, blood or lust
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.”
“Ambition, madam,
is a great man’s madness”
Sometimes
The devil doth preach.”
“I’d make them
My low foot-steps” - duchess if brothers get in her way of marriage.
Black-birds
fatten best in hard weather”
He and his brother are like
Plum trees that grow crooked.. they are rich and o’erladen.”
Some curs’d example
Poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread.” (Antonio)
I winked and
chose a husband.” (duchess)
(there isn’t) A thing that makes man so deformed,
so beastly As doth intemperate anger.”
I would hang on their ears like a
horse-leech till I were full, and then drop off.
How fearfully
Shows his ambition now.” (Delio about Antonio)
Whether I am doomed
to live, or die / I can do both like a prince.
raise yourself / or
if you please, my hand to help you.
