"The Duchess of Malfi" Quotes

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in’t 'gainst my will.

I do not think so, I am sure of it. Love mixed with fear is sweetest.

Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness.

I would have you lead your fortune by the hand unto your marriage-bed.

Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her, I know not.

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

I do account this world but a dog-kennel.

We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.