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• 'I am Duchess of Malfi still.'- Duchess, act 4
• 'There speaketh so divine a continence as cuts off all lascivious and vain hope'- Antonio, act 1
• ‘she seems rather to welcome the end of misery than shun it- a behaviour so noble as gives a majesty to adversity’ - Bosola, act 4 sc 1
• 'The misery of us that are born great! We are forc'd to woo, because none dare woo us.'- duchess, act 1 sc 3
• 'An honest statesman to a prince is like a cedar planted by a spring: the spring bathes the tree's root; the grateful tree rewards it with his shadow'- Bosola, act 3
• ‘Now for this act I am certain to be raised, ‘and men that paint weeds to the life are praised'- Bosola, act 3
• ‘For myself, that was an actor in the main of it all much ‘gainst mine own good nature’- bosola, act 5
• ‘I will not imitate things glorious no more than base; I’ll be mine own example’- bosola, act 5
• ‘Every small thing draws a base mind to fear as the adamant draws iron’- Bosola, act 3
• 'Let me know wherefore I should be thus neglected. Sir, I served your tyranny' - Bosola to Ferdinand, Act 4
• 'For know, whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince'- Duchess
• 'I look no higher than I can reach [...] when a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop, they quickly both tire'- Bosola to Antonio (2.1)
• 'when he is jealous of any man he lays worse plots for them than ever was imposed on Hercules'- Antonio (1.1)
• 'You may discover what a wealthy mine I make you lord of'- Duchess

  'Oh, my unworthiness'- Antonio (Act 1)