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Measure For Measure Quotes

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

1603 Angelo to Isabella. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.92.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37

If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.

DJ Patil (2011). “Building Data Science Teams”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Taming of the shrew. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Winter's tale. All's well that ends well”, p.193

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.67, Atlantic Monthly Press