"Measure for Measure" Quotes
A duke disguises himself as a friar to observe the moral decay in his city and enforces strict laws to restore justice, leading to a complex exploration of morality and mercy.
plays | 278 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Let's write 'good angel' on the devil's horn, 'tis not the devil's crest.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.
