| Bosola and The Duchess of Malfi exchange 1 | BOSOLA: A little cruded milk, fantastical puff paste: our bodies are weaker than those paper prisons boys use to keep flies in…Such is the soul in the body…/DUCHESS/I am the Duchess of Malfi still. |
| The Duchess of Malfi: The Duke's description | Most true:/He never pays debts unless they be shrewd turns, |
| Antonio's description of the Duke's creation | for he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheist, and a thousand such political monsters… |
| Scene V Ferdinand | Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,/Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. |
| Act I, Scene I Bosola as Malcontent | There are rewards for hawks and dogs when they have done us service; but for a soldier... nothing |
