Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Revenger's Tragedy.
Revenge Quotes
VINDICE
[…] Hum: whoe'er knew
Murder unpaid? Faith, give revenge her due:
(1.1.42-43)
Quotes
VINDICEWe must coin. Women are apt, you know, to take false money, But I dare stake my soul for these two creatures. Only excuse excepted that they'll swallow, Because their sex is easy in belief....
Lust Quotes
VINDICEDuke: royal lecher; go, grey-haired adultery, And thou his son, as impious steeped as he: And thou his bastard true-begot in evil: And thou his duchess that will do with devil. (1.1.1-4)
Justice and Judgment Quotes
VINDICESister, y'have sentenced most direct, and true; The law's a woman, and would she were you. (1.1.122-123)
Respect and Reputation Quotes
DUKEDuchess, it is your youngest son: we're sorry, His violent act has e'en drawn blood of honour And stained our honours, Thrown ink upon the forehead of our state Which envious spirits will dip t...
Religion Quotes
SPURIODuke, thou didst to me wrong, and by thy act Adultery is my nature […](1.2.193-194)
Violence Quotes
VINDICEThou sallow picture of my poisoned love, My study's ornament, thou shell of death, Once the bright face of my betrothed lady; (1.1.14-16)
Gender Quotes
VINDICESister, y'have sentenced most direct, and true; The law's a woman, and would she were you. (1.1.122-123)