The Duchess of Malfi quotes

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  • Created on: 23-11-18 14:44
"Begins at home, quits first his...
...royal palace of flatt'ring sycophants, of dissolute and infamous persons" said by Antonio
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"But if't chance some cursed...
...example poison't near the head, death and diseases through the whole land spread" said by Antonio
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"Indeed he rails...
...at those things which he wants" said by Antonio, about Bosola
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"This great fellow were able...
...to possess the greatest devil and make him worse" said by Bosola, about Cardinal
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"He and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked...
...rich and o'erladen with fruit, but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them" said by Bosola, about Ferdinand and Cardinal
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"This foul melancholy...
...will poison all his goodness" said by Antonio, about Bosola
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"Take fire when I give fire...
...that is, laugh when I laugh" said by Ferdinand
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"For he stews in his way flatterers...
...panders, intelligencers, atheists and a thousand such political monsters" said by Antonio, about Ferdinand
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"You never fixed your eye on...
...three fair medals cast in one figure, of so different temper" said by Antonio, about The Duchess
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"She stains the time past...
...lights the time to come" said by Antonio, about The Duchess
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"Say then my corruption...
...grew out of horse dung. I am your creature" said by Bosola, to Ferdinand
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"The marriage night...
...is the entrance into some prison" said by Cardinal
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"It locally contains or heaven...
...or hell; there's no third place in't" said by Antonio to The Duchess
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"I would sooner eat a dead pigeon...
...taken from the soles of the feet of one sick of the plague than kiss one of you fasting" said by Bosola to the old lady
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"Are you...
...stark mad!" said by Cardinal to Ferdinnand, reaction to The Duchess' child
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"I'll find scorpions...
...to string my whips" said by Ferdinand, reaction to The Duchess' child
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"When I choose a husband...
...I will marry for your honour" said by The Duchess to Ferdinand
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"You had got, within these two days...
...a false key into her bedchamber" said by Ferdinand to Bosola
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"Whether I am doomed...
...to live, or die, I can do both like a prince" said by The Duchess to Ferdinand
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"I do not like this jesting of religion...
...this feigned pilgrimage" said by Cariola to The Duchess
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"I fell into the galleys...
...in your service" said by Bosola to Cardinal
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"I will never...
...marry" said by The Duchess to her brothers
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"So I through frights and threatening will...
...assay this dangerous venture" said by The Duchess
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"You have made me...
...stark blind" said by Antonio to The Duchess
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"Old friends, like old swords...
...still are trusted best" said by Delio to Antonio
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"Traitors are ever confident...
...till they are discovered" said by Antonio to Bosola
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"When thou wast with thy husband...
...thou was watched like a tame elephant" said by Cardinal to Julia about Castruchio
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...example poison't near the head, death and diseases through the whole land spread" said by Antonio

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"But if't chance some cursed...

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...at those things which he wants" said by Antonio, about Bosola

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...to possess the greatest devil and make him worse" said by Bosola, about Cardinal

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...rich and o'erladen with fruit, but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them" said by Bosola, about Ferdinand and Cardinal

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