M4M: government and authority Flashcards
‘We have strict statutes and most biting laws…
which for this fourteen years we have let slip’ - Duke
‘Like an o’ergrown
lion in a cave that goes not out to prey’ - Duke
‘Threat’ning twigs of birch,
only to stick it in their children’s sight for terror’ - Duke
‘And liberty plucks justice by the nose;…
The baby beats the nurse and quite athwart goes all decorum’-Duke
‘Sith ‘twas my fault…
to give the people scope’ - Duke
‘Twould be my tyranny to…
trike and gall them for what I bid them do’-Duke
‘Whether tyranny be in his place, or…
in his eminence that fills it up’ - Claudio
‘Run by hideous law,…
as mice by lions’ - Lucio
‘We must not make…
a scarecrow of the law’ - Angelo
‘The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life,…
may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try’ - Angelo
‘But what we do not see, …
we tread upon, and never think of it’
‘Some rise by sin,…
and some by virtue fall’ - Escalus
‘Mercy is not itself that oft looks so;…
pardon is still the nurse of second woe’ - escalus
‘The law hath not been dead,…
though it hath slept’ - Angelo
‘Go to, sir,…
you weigh equally: a feather will turn the scale’ - provost to Abhorsen about Pompey
