Key Quotations - Cardinal

Question 1

Cardinal on marriage

Answer 1

‘The marriage night is the entrance into some prison’

Question 2

Women are inconstant

Answer 2

‘To view another spacious world i’th’moon, and look to find a constant woman there’

Question 3

Showing his Machiavellianism

Answer 3

‘There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger’

Question 4

Hypocrisy of religion and deception towards the Duchess

Answer 4

‘Doth she make religion her riding hood to keep her from the sun and tempest?’

Question 5

Admits he had the Duchess and her two children murdered

Answer 5

‘By my appointment, the Duchess of Malfi and two of her young children four nights since were strangled’

Question 6

Killing Julia by the poisoned Bible

Answer 6

‘I have bound thee to’t by death’

Question 7

Discovers Bosola was watching as he murdered Julia, showing their equality

Answer 7

‘Now you know me for your fellow murderer’

Question 8

Last line, his reputation

Answer 8

‘Now, I pray, let me be laid by and never thought of’