corruption

• 'He and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools. They are rich and o'erladen with fruit, but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them'- Bosola, act 1
• 'This foul melancholy will poison all his goodness'- Antonio, act 1
• 'To purge infected blood, such blood as hers'- Ferdinand, act 2
• ‘You have a pair of hearts are hollow graves, rotten and rotting others, and your vengeance [...] still goes arm in arm’- bosola about brothers, act 4 sc 2
• 'Think you, your bosom will be a grave dark and obscure enough for such a secret?'- Cardinal to Julia (5.2)
• 'From decayed fortunes every flatterer shrinks, men cease to build where the foundation sinks'- Antonio
• 'But if't chance some cursed example poison't near the head, death and diseases through the whole land spread.'- Antonio (1.1)
• 'where this man's head lies at that man's foot, and so lower and lower'- bosola (1.1)
• 'The witchcraft lies in her rank blood'- Ferdinand