Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The White Devil Quotes
- The Catholic Church / Corruption
- 'It doth not suit a reverend cardinal to play the lawyer thus'
- 'O poor charity! / Thou art seldom found in scarlet'
- Let me appeal then from this Christian Court to the uncivil tartar'
- 'were there a second paradise to lose/ This devil would betray it'
- 'A rape! A rape! ... Yes you have ravished justice / Forced her to do your pleasure'
- 'You have ta'en the sacrament to prosecute / t'intended murder'
- 'If you be my accuser / Pray cease to be my judge'
- Appearance/Reality
- 'if the devil ever did take good shape behold his picture'
- 'counterfeit jewels make true ones oft' suspected'
- 'painted devils'
- Women
- 'Woman to man is either a god or a wolf'
- 'sweet meats that rot the eater'
- 'Women's anger / Should, like their fright, procure a little sport'
- 'I do love her, just as a man holds a wolf by the ears'
- 'Trust a woman? Never, never'
- Vittoria
- 'fair and crystal river/ For that some melancholic distracted man / Hath drowned himself in't'
- 'if man should spit against the wind / The filth returns in's face'
- 'I had a limb corrupted to an ulcer, /But I have cut it off:
and now I'll go / Weeping to heaven on crutches'
- 'Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light'
- 'My soul, like a ship in a black storm, / Is driven I know not wither'
- Flamineo
- he took the crucifix between his hands / And broke a limb off.'
- 'I would fain know where lies the mass of wealth
which you have hoarded for my maintenance'
- 'We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry'
- 'cease to be fortunes slaves / Nay cease to die by dying'
- 'at myself I will begin and end'
- Power / Corruption
- 'Knaves do grow great by becoming great men's apes'
- 'There's but three furies found in spacious hell; / But in a great man's breast three thousand dwell'
- 'greatness hath by much o'ergrown thy wit'
- 'what have I gained from thee but infamy?'
- 'Glories like glow-worms, afar off shine bright / But looked to near, have neither heat nor light'
- 'O happy are they that never saw the
court, / 'Nor ever knew great men but by
report'