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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Make a woman believe?<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 1, sc. 2, l. 43. References are to C. B. Wheeler’s edition, 1915<br />

Unequal nature, to place women’s hearts<br />

So far upon the left side.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 2, sc. 5, l. 33<br />

Why should only I...<br />

Be cased up, like a holy relic? I have youth<br />

And a little beauty.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 3, sc. 2, l. 135<br />

Raised by that curious engine, your white hand.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 3, sc. 2, l. 297<br />

O, that it were possible,<br />

We might but hold some two days’ conference<br />

With the dead!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 18<br />

I have made a soap-boiler costive.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 117<br />

I am Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi still.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 146<br />

Glories, like glow-worms, afar <strong>of</strong>f shine bright,<br />

But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148<br />

I know death hath ten thousand several doors<br />

For men to take their exits.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 222.<br />

Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.<br />

Bosola: I think not so; her infelicity<br />

Seemed to have years too many.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 267<br />

Physicians are like kings,—they brook no contradiction.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 5, sc. 2, l. 72<br />

We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied<br />

Which way please them.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Duchess <strong>of</strong> Malfi’ (1623) act 5, sc. 4, l. 53<br />

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash<br />

whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.<br />

‘Westward Hoe’ (1607) act 2, sc. 2<br />

Fortune’s a right whore:<br />

If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,<br />

That she may take away all at one swoop.

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