Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Every true man's apparel fits your thief. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“We would, and we would not. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
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