The Revenger's Tragedy Quotes

“When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.”
― Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Has not heaven an ear? Is all the lightning wasted?”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow.
And 'tis the deepest art to study man.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!"
Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat?
When shall we lie together?"
Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave!
Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave's
Already as familiar as an ague,
And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I can
Forget myself in private, but elsewhere,
I pray do you remember be."
Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir.
I conster myself saucy."
Lussurioso: "What hast been? What profession?"
Vindice: "A bone-setter."
Lussurioso: "A bone-setter!"
Vindice: "A bawd, my lord, one that sets bones together."
Lussurioso: (aside) "Notable bluntness!”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Castiza: "False! I defy you both!
I have endured you with an ear of fire;
Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!
Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."
Gratiana: "Where?"
Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Tis time to die when we are ourselves our foes.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy Thomas Middleton

“Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Surely we are all mad people, and they
Whom we think are, are not;”
― Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Good, happy, swift; there's gunpowder i'th' court,
Wildfire at midnight in this heedless fury.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Joy's a subtil elf.
I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.”
― Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Money! Ho, ho!
'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff.
I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“As fast as they peep up let's cut 'em down.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“Ha! What news here? Is the day out a' th' socket
That it is noon at midnight? The court up?”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy

“He that climbs highest had the greatest fall.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger’s Tragedy Thomas Middleton

“Faith, if the truth were known, I was begot
After some gluttonous dinner; some stirring dish
Was my first father. When deep healths went round,
And ladies' cheeks were painted red with wine,
Their tongues as short and nimble as their heels,
Uttering words sweet and thick, and when they rose
Were marrily disposed to fall again:
Oh, damnation met
The sin of feasts, drunken adultery!
I feel it swell me; my revenge is just:
I was begot in impudent wine and lust
(...)
As for my brother, the duke's only son,
Whose birth is more beholding to report
Than mine, and yet perhaps as falsely sown,
I'll loose my days upon him, hate all I.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy