Measure For Measure Quotes

• Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Nurse, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 1, sc. 3, l. 23

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• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pride, Men

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

  Peter Drucker

  Measurement, Can't Change, Measuring

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• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dying, Age

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

  William Shakespeare

  Passing On, Two, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 17

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Tempted

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

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• O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Power, Strenght

  "Measure for Measure".

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• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Sin

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

  William Shakespeare

  Risk, Bold Actions, Virtue

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]

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• Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ignorant, Proud

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Law

  1603 Angelo to Isabella. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.92.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Littles, Faults

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 5, sc. 1, l. [440]

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension.

  William Shakespeare

  Apprehension

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Measurement, Can Not, Measuring

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Faces, Worst

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. 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; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

  Lord Kelvin

  Numbers, Quality, Principles

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• 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

  Running, Fall, Ice

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.71

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• 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.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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