Measure for Measure Quotes

• “Because we see it; but what we do not see/We tread upon” - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1
• “Go to your bosom,/Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know” –Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2
• “O, what may man within him hide,/Though angel on the outward side!” –Duke, Act 3 Scene 2
• “Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls/To thy false seeming!”- Angelo, Act 2 Scene 4
• “Dost thou desire her foully for those things/That make her good?” –Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2
• Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die./More than our brother is our chastity.” –Isabella, Act 2 Scene 4
• “Why, you are nothing, then, neither maid, widow, nor wife?” –Duke, Act 5 Scene 1
• “I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a/whore.”– Lucio, Act 5 Scene 1
• “Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall” .“Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity?” –Escalus, Act 2 Scene 1
• “The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart/Goes all decorum.”–

  Duke, Act 1 Scene 3
• When I that censure him do so offend,/Let mine own judgement pattern out my death” –Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1
• Thus can the demigod, Authority,/Make us pay down for our offence by weight The words of heaven” –Claudio, Act 1 Scene 2
• “His glassy essence, like an angry ape/Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven” –Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2
•  “I had rather give my body than my soul” –Isabella, Act 2 Scene 4
• “Might there not be a charity in sin/ To save this brother’s life?” –Angelo, Act 2 Scene 4
• “Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful” –Duke, Act 3 Scene 1
• "Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue, and heart"- Duke Act 1, Scene 1
• "We have strict statutes and most biting laws, the needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades, which for this fourteen years we have let slip"- Duke Act 1, Scene 3
• "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt"- Lucio Act 1, Scene 5
• ‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, another thing to fall"- Angelo Act 2 Scene 1
• "When I that censure him do so offend, let mine own judgement pattern out my death" -Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1

• "Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?"- Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2
• "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant"- Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2
• "Is this her fault or mine? the tempter, or the tempted, who sins most, ha?"- Angelo Act 2, Scene 2
• "If he had been as you, and you as he, you would have slipp’d like him"- Isabella Act 2, Scene 2
• "Better it were a brother died at once, than that a sister, by redeeming him, should die for ever."- Isabella Act 2, Scene 2
• "The miserable have no other medicine but only hope"- Claudio Act 3, Scene 1
• "The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good"- Duke Act 3, Scene 1
• "O, what may man within him hide, 

  Though angel on the outward side"- Duke Act 3, Scene 1
• "He who the sword of heaven will bear should be as holy as severe"- Duke Act 3, Scene 2
• "This dead unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings"- Angelo Act 4, Scene 4
• "Truth is truth to th’end of reck’ning"- Isabella Act 5, Scene 1
• "But let my trial be mine own confession. Immediate sentence, then, and sequent death"- Angelo Act 5, Scene 1
• "Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, like doth quit like, and measure still for measure"- Duke Act 5, Scene 1
• "What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine"- Duke Act 5, Scene 1
• "I partly think
a due sincerity govern’d his deeds till he did look on me. Since it is so, let him not die"- Isabella Act 5, Scene 1