Quotes on Measure For Measure

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution 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 regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

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

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

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.