incomplete list of favorite measure for measure quotes
“Our natures do pursue, like rats that ravin down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die”
“And liberty plucks justice by the nose, the baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart goes all decorum”
“When maidens sue, men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel, all their petitions are freely theirs as they themselves would owe them”
“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”
“Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, than fall and bruise to death”
“Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall”
“Heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept”
“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant”
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”
“A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless of what’s past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal”
“All difficulties are but easy when they are known”
“I will go darkly to work with her.” “Oh, that’s the way, for women are light at midnight”
“Know you where you are?” “Respect to your great place, and let the devil be sometime honoured for his burning throne”
“I hope you will not mock me with a husband!” “It is your husband mocked you with a husband”
“They say best men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad: so may my husband”
