The Duchess of Malfi Quotes

Cardinal: Shall our blood,The royal blood of Aragon and Castile,Be thus attainted?Ferdinand: Apply desperate physic!We must not now use balsamum, but fire,The smarting cupping glass, for that's the...

Diamonds are of most value,They say, that have passed through most jewellers' hands (1.1.92-93)

I can be angryWithout this rupture; there is not in natureA thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly,As doth intemperate anger. (2.5.55-58)

Though some o'th'court hold it presumptionTo instruct princes what they ought to do,It is a noble duty to inform themWhat they ought to forsee. (1.1.19-22)

Could I be one of their flatt'ring panders, I would hang on their ears like a horse-leech till I were full, and then dropoff. […] Who would rely upon these miserabledependences, in expectation to...

In seeking to reduce both state and peopleTo a fixed order, their judicious kingBegins at home, quits first his royal palaceOf flatt'ring sycophants, of dissoluteAnd infamous persons […]Consid'ri...

Miserable age, where only the rewardOf doing well is the doing of it. (1.1.31-32)

[…] Who must dispatch me?I account this world a tedious theatre,For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will. (4.1.81-82)