13 Inspiring Quotes from Measure for Measure (by William Shakespeare)

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Measure for Measure Quotes

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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.

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

From too much liberty, my Lucio, libertyAs surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate useTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, – A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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.

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison’d in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: ’tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death.

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

It is excellent / To have a giant’s strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure