Malfi Character Quotes Flashcards
(45 cards)
What does the Duchess say about remarrying?
“Diamonds are of most value they say, that have passed through most jewellers’ hands.”
What does the Duchess say to Antonio when she is trying to woo him
“This goodly roof of yours is too low built… without it I raise it higher. Raise yourself.”
What does the Duchess say of her dislike to hierarchy
“The misery of us that are born great, we are forced to woo because non dare woo us.”
“The birds that live i’th’field… live happier than we, for they may choose their mates.”
One of your eyes is bloodshot
Use my ring to’t
Love mixed with fear
Is sweetest
My reputation is
Safe.
And fortune seems to have her eyesight
To behold my tragedy
I am
Duchess of Malfi still
Heaven gates are not so highly arched as princes’ palaces:
They that enter there must go upon their knees.
Begins at home, quits first
His royal palace of flattering sycophants
Ambition, madam,
Is a great man’s madness
You’ll weep shortly, for me,
The pearls do signify your tears.
For to live this is not indeed to live
It is a mockery and abuse of life.”
And my son fly
The court of princes!”
They are most luxurious
Will wed twice
Whores, by that rule,
Are precious
You are my sister. This was my fathers poniard: do you see?
I’d be loath’d to see it look rusty.
Farewell
Lusty widow
Tis not your whore’s blood that shall quench my wild fire
But your whores blood
Methinks her fault and beauty, blended together,
Show like Leprosy
Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds
We are cut from our own dust
The marriage night is
Some entrance into some prison
That hath a little fingering on the lute
Yet cannot tune it
Yes. I can be angry without this rupture…
Come put yourself in tune.
