Measure For Measure Quotes

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die;
And, seeking death, find life.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall."
- Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope of the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, -
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“For this new-married man approaching here,
Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd
Your well defended honour, you must pardon
For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--
Being criminal, in double violation
Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach
Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--
The very mercy of the law cries out
Most audible, even from his proper tongue,
'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE”
― William Shakespeare

“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended
That for the fault's love is the' offender friended”
― Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Kindness is the key that opens the door of favour and beautiful surprises.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“About a stone-cast from the wall
A sluice with blacken'd waters slept,
And o'er it many, round and small,
The cluster'd marish-mosses crept.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.”
― Roger Allam, Players of Shakespeare 3: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company

“That we were all, as some would seem to be,
From all our faults, as faults from seeming, free”
― Shakespeare

“Thoughts are no subjects,
Intents but merely thoughts”
― Shakespeare

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare