Measure for Measure Quotes

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”

“we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up your appointment, go in your place. If the encounter acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to her recompense; and here, by this, is your brother saved, your honor untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. What think you of it? ”

“If he be like your brother, for his sake Is he pardoned; and, for your lovely sake, Give me your hand and say you will be mine. He is my brother too. But fitter time for that. ”

“You rogue, I have been drinking all night. I am not fitted for ‘t.”

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall,”

“Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well. ”

“All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down”

“O, death’s a great disguiser, and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard, and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death. You know the course is common.”

“Yes, truly. I speak not as desiring more, But rather wishing a more strict restraint Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.”

“Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.”

“Who will believe thee, Isabel? My unsoiled name, th’ austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i’ th’ state Will so your accusation overweigh That you shall stifle in your own report And smell of calumny. ”

“Thyself and thy belongings are not thine own so proper as to waste thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.”

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

“O my dear lord, I crave no other nor no better man. ”

“Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract I got possession of Julietta’s bed. You know the lady. She is fast my wife, Save that we do the denunciation lack Of outward order:”

″‘Tis set down so in heaven, but not in Earth.”

“I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.”

“Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?”

“Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die. More than our brother is our chastity.”

“Be you content, fair maid. It is the law, not I, condemn your brother. Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son, It should be thus with him. He must die tomorrow. ”