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“I partly think

A due sincerity governed his deeds

Till he did look on me. Since it is so,

Let him not die. My brother had but justice,

In that he did the thing for which he died.”

(5.1.510-514)

#lust #power going to head #measure for measure

“Who thinks he knows that he ne’er knew my body,

But knows, he thinks, that he knows Isabel’s.”

(5.1.229-230)

#optical illusion #measure for measure

“If she be mad - as I believe no other - / Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, / Such a dependency of thing on thing, / As e’er I heard in madness.”

(5.1.69-72)

This reminded me of Hamlet. However, it also seemed like the Duke was trying to cover all of his bases, again not trying to upset anyone, calling her mad while also stating her madness is out of reason.

#madness #measure for measure

“You bid me seek redemption of the devil.”

(5.1.32)

#devil in disguise #measure for measure

“Love talks with better knowledge, and / knowledge with dearer love.”

(3.2.152-153)

#measure for measure

“Redeem thy brother

By yielding up thy body to my will,

Or else he must not only die the death,

But thy unkindness shall his death draw out

To ling’ring sufferance.”

(2.4.177-181)

#abuse of power #hypocrite #measure for measure

“I’ll know / His pleasure. Maybe he will relent. Alas, / He hath but as offended in a dream. / All sects, all ages smack of this vice, and he / To die for’t?”

(2.2.4-8)

#measure for measure

“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.”

(2.1.1-4)

#measure for measure

“Our doubts are traitors / And makes us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.”

(1.4.85-87)

This reminded me of a motivational speaker or the quotes that all young athletes keep on their wall saying “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

#measure for measure

“Therefore I prithee

Supply me with the habit, and instruct me

How I may formally in person bear

Like a true friar.”

(1.3.49-52)

#disguise #measure for measure

“Sith ‘twas my fault to give the people scope, / ‘Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them / For what I bid them do; for we bid this be done / When evil deeds have their permissive pass / And not the punishment.”

(1.3.38-42)

#measure for measure

“I have great hope in that, for in her youth

There is a prone and speechless dialect

Such as move men. Besides, she hath prosperous art

When she will play with reason and discourse,

And well she can persuade.”

(1.2.180-184)

#female persuasion #power of speech #measure for measure

“O slave, of no more trust / Than love that’s hired!”

(5.2.185-186)

#antony and cleopatra

“Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself.

Say that the last I spoke was “Antony,”

And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,

And bring me how he takes my death.”

(4.13.10-13)

Honestly, this scene from Glee should not have come to mind haha, but it was an elaborate scheme to get the attention of a man soooo...

#scheme #antony and cleopatra

“This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.

My fleet hath yielded to the doe, and yonder

They cast their caps up and carouse together

Like friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! ‘Tis thou

Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart

Makes only wars on thee.”

He quickly changed from love to hate.

(4.12.12-17)

#antony and cleopatra

“And thou art honest too. / I wish I could be made so many men, / And all of you clapped up together in / An Antony, that I might do you service / So good as you have done.”

(4.2.22-26)

#antony and cleopatra

“I saw her once

Hop forty paces through the public street,

And having lost her breath, she spoke and panted,

That she did make defect perfection,

An breathless pour breath forth.”

(2.3.269-273)

#regina george #cleopatra #antony and cleopatra

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