Measure for measure Quotes

“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.”

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.”

“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.”

“But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—His glassy essence—like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more.”

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

“That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”

“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.”