How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
SALOMÉ I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the Tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's eyes under his shaking eyelids? It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like that. I know not what it means. Of a truth I know it too well. (68)
Salomé knows all too well what sinful thoughts her stepfather is contemplating. Bow chicka bow bow.
Quote #2
JOKANAAN Where is he whose cup of abominations is now full? Where is he, who in a robe of silver shall one day die in the face of all the people? Bid him come forth, that he may hear the voice of him who hath cried in the waste places and in the houses of kings. (121)
Though Jokanaan's prophecy is cryptic, he makes it clear that a time is coming when the sinful will be punished.
Quote #3
JOKANAAN Where is she who saw the images of men painted on the walls, even the images of the Chaldæans painted with colours, and gave herself up unto the lust of her eyes, and sent ambassadors into the land of Chaldæa?
SALOMÉ It is of my mother that he is speaking.
THE YOUNG SYRIAN Oh no, Princess.
SALOMÉ Yes: it is of my mother that he is speaking. (121-4)
Salomé seems to enjoy hearing her sinful, incestuous mother get insulted.