The duchess of malfi

• "laugh when i laugh were the subject never so witty" - ferdinand
• "He speaks with other's tongues ...... Dooms men to death" - antonio
• "his nature is too honest for such business" - cardinal
• "she's a young widow; i would not have her marry again" - ferdinand
• "A very quaint invisible devil in flesh" - bosol
• "nor anything without the addition, honour sway your high blood" - Cardinal
• "the marriage is the entrance into some prison" - cardinal
• "lusty widow" - ferdinand
• "diamonds.... past through most jewellers hands" - duchess
• "let old wives report i winked and chose a husband" - duchess
• "for i am going into a wilderness" - duchess
• "my hand to help you" - duchess
• "time will easily scatter the tempest" - duchess
• "these words should be mine"
• "we are forced to woo because none dare woo us" - duchess
• they say he's a brave fellow, will play his five thousand crowns at tennis, dance, court ladies and one that hath fought single combat - delio
• like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools - bosola
• a melancholy churchman - antonio
• a most perverse and turbulent nature - antonio
• the law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider - delio
• you live in a rank pasture here i'th' court - ferdinand
• the marriage night is the entrance into some prison - cardinal
• raise yourself, or if you please, my hand to help you - duchess
• we are forced to woo, because none dare woo us - duchess
• forced to express our violent passions in riddles and in dreams - duchess
• and thy breath smells of lemon peels - duchess
• tis a pretty art, this grafting - bosola
• how superstitiously we mind our evils - delio
• i came to say my prayers - bosola
• shes' oft found witty, but is never wise - bosola
• when i have hewed her to pieces - ferdinand
• or my imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin - ferdinad
• tis not your whore's milk that shall quench my wild-fire, but your whore's blood - ferdinand
• i can be angry without this rupture - cardinand
• a false key into her bedchamber - ferdinand
• [enter ferdinand unseen]
• why might not i marry? i have not gone about in this to create any new world or custom - duchess
• my reputation is safe - duchess
• you have shook hands with reputation and made him invisible - ferdinand
• be cased up like a holy relic? i have youth and a little beauty - duchess