Quotations Flashcards

(106 cards)

1
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‘Flattering sycophants…

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…of dissolute And infamous persons’

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2
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‘Is like a…

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…common fountain’

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3
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‘Some cursed example poison’t…

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…near the head, Death, and diseases through the whole land spread’

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4
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‘blackbirds fatten…

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…best in hard weather’

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5
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‘possess the greatest devil,…

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…and make him worse’

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6
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‘like plum-tree that grow crooked over stand pools…

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…they are rich, and o’er-laden with fruit’

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7
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‘like beds…

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…in a hopsital’

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8
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‘I knew this fellow seven years…

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…in the galleys For a notorious murder’

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9
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‘laugh…

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…when I laugh’

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10
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‘he did bestow bribes…

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…so largely, and so impudently’

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11
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‘A most perverse…

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…and turbulent nature’

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12
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‘You never fixed you eye…

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…on three fair deals, Cast in one figure, of so different temper’

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13
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‘her very sleeps Are more…

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…in heaven than other ladies’ shrifts’

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14
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‘There’s Gold’ ‘What…

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…follows’

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15
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‘Whose throat…

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…must I cut?’

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16
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‘she’s a young widow…

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…I would not have her marry again’

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17
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‘Say my corruption…

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…Grew out of horse-dung’

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18
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‘I am…

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…your creature’

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19
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‘You already…

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…know what man is’

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20
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‘Diamond are of most value, They say, that have…

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…passed through most jewellers’ hands’

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21
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‘turning of…

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…an hour-glass’

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22
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‘Farewell,…

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…lusty widow’

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23
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‘In a…

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…winding sheet?’

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24
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She puts her ring upon

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his finger. He kneels

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'This goodly...
...roof of yours is too low built'
26
'Without I raise it higher:...
...raise yourself'
27
'Ambition, madam...
...is a great man's madness'
28
'The misery of us...
...that are born great: We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us'
29
'Violent...
...passions'
30
'half a...
...blush in't'
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'time will easily...
...Scatter the tempest'
32
'These words...
...should be mine'
33
'Lay a naked...
...sword between us, keep us chaste'
34
'she looked like a nutmeg-grater...
...after she resembled an abortive hedgehog'
35
'As the most ulcerous...
...wolf'
36
'I observe our Duchess Is sick...
...o'days, she pukes, her stomach seethes'
37
'wears a...
...loose-bodied gown'
38
'Search the heads of the greatest...
...rivers in the world, you shall find them but bubbles of water'
39
'O good Antonio...
...I fear I am undone'
40
'My nose...
...bleeds'
41
'The Duchess...
...was delivered of a son'
42
'Thou art...
...a witty false one'
43
'My constancy, because you have approved...
...Those giddy and wild turnings in yourself'
44
'A man might...
...strive to make glass malleable'
45
'spacious world i'th' moon,...
...And look to find a constant women there'
46
'I have taken you off your...
...melancholy perch, Bore you upon my fist, and showed you game'
47
'I never know man and beast, of a horse...
...and a knight, so weak of each other'
48
'A lute...
...string'
49
'I have this night digged...
...up a mandrake'
50
'Shall our blood, The royal blood...
...of Aragon and Castile, Be thus attainted?'
51
'Or my imagination will carry me...
...To see her in the shameful act of sin'
52
'strong...
...thighed bargeman'
53
'I'll find scorpions to...
...strong my whips, And fix her in general eclipse'
54
'She is...
...a strumpet'
55
'The witchcraft lies...
...in her rank blood'
56
'You are...
...lord of misrule'
57
'I lie with her...
...often, and I know She'll much disquiet you'
58
'Do you...
...rise so early?'
59
'I'll stop...
...your mouth'
60
'*Ferdinand gives*...
...*her a poniard*'
61
'enjoyed...
...my sister'
62
'So you have...
...some virgins That are witches'
63
'His action seemed...
...To intent so much'
64
'The birds that live i'th' field...
...On the wild benefit of nature, live Happier than we; for they may choose their mates'
65
'My heart is...
...turned to a heavy lump of lead'
66
'Her melancholy seems...
...to be fortified With a strange disdain'
67
'*Gives her*...
...*a dead man's hand*'
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'*the figures of*...
...*Antonio and his children, appearing as if they were dead*'
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'I could...
...curse the stars'
70
'Damn her!...
...That body of hers'
71
'mad-folk...
...and place them near her lodging'
72
'And silence...
...makes me stark mad'
73
'The robin redbreast, and the nightingale,...
...Never live long in cages'
74
'There's a mad...
...lawyer, and a secular priest'
75
'Thou art a box of worm see,...
...at best, but a salvatory of green mummy'
76
'Am not I...
...thy Duchess?'
77
'I am...
...Duchess of Malfi still'
78
'*Enter Executioners with*...
...*a coffin, cords and a bell*'
79
'Bestow upon my...
...women, will you?'
80
'I know death hath...
...ten thousand several doors'
81
'heaven' gates are not...
...so highly arched As princes' palaces'
82
'Come,...
...violent death'
83
'Some other...
...strangle the children'
84
'Come, despatch...
...her'
85
'I am damned:...
...I have not been at confession'
86
'I am quick...
...with child'
87
'Alas, how have...
...these offended?'
88
'Cover her face:...
...mine eyes dazzle: she died young'
89
'She and I...
...were twins'
90
'It seems she...
...was born first'
91
'The wold shall find her grave, and scrape it up;...
...Not to devour the corpse, but to discover The horrid murder'
92
'O, she's gone again;...
...there the cords of life broke'
93
'These tears, I am very...
...certain, never grew In my mother's milk'
94
'They call...
...lycanthropia'
95
'And dig...
...dead bodies up'
96
'What an excellent...
...shape hath that fellow!'
97
'Love-powder...
...into my drink?'
98
'Sure there wants fire...
...where there are no lively sparks'
99
'Put yourself to the charge of courting...
...me, Whereas now I woo you'
100
'We that are great women of pleasure...
...used to cut off These uncertain wishes, and unquiet longings'
101
'thou't poisoned...
...with that book'
102
'Come to me after midnight,...
...to help to remove that body'
103
'We are...
...betrayed!'
104
'Now my...
...revenge is perfect'
105
'Whether we fall by ambition,...
...blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust'
106
'To establish this young,...
...hopeful gentleman In's mother's right'