Measure For Measure

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Escalus, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 1, l. 38.

QUOTATION: O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Duke, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 2, l. 271-2.

QUOTATION: The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Duke, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 1, l. 180-1.

QUOTATION: ‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 1, l. 17-8.

QUOTATION: Ever till now,
When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 2, l. 185-6.

QUOTATION: If bawdy talk offend you, we’ll have very little of it.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lucio, in Measure for Measure, act 4, sc. 4, l. 178-9.

QUOTATION: How now, which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. 1st Gentleman, in Measure for Measure, act 1, sc. 2, l. 58-9.

QUOTATION: Sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lucio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 2, l. 175-6.

QUOTATION: A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Escalus, in Measure for Measure, act 1, sc. 1, l. 79-80.

QUOTATION: This will last out a night in Russia
When nights are longest there.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 1, l. 134-5.

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