M4M: Key Quotes Flashcards
DUKE:
‘No more evasion’
‘In our remove be thou at full ourself; mortality and mercy in Vienna’
‘Your scope is as mine own so to enforce or qualify the laws as to your soul seems good’
‘Elected him in our absence to supply, lent him our terror, dressed him with our love’
‘And Liberty plucks justice by the nice, the baby bears the nurse and quite athwart goes all decorum’
‘We have strict statues and most biting laws…’
‘Like an o’ergrown lion in a cave that goes not out to prey’
‘Hence we shall see if poet changes purposes what our seekers be’
‘Evil deeds have their permissive pass, and not the punishment’
‘Twas my fault to give the people scoop, twould be my tyranny to stoke and gall them for what I bid them do’
‘A mad fantastical trick’
ANGELO:
‘Let there be some more test made of my metal, before so noble and so great a figure be stamped upon it’
‘Tis one thing to be tempted Escalus; another to fall’
‘When I that censure him do so offend, Let mine own judgement pattern put my death and nothing come in partial’
‘When I would pray and think, I think and pray,
‘That I crave death more willingly than mercy; Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it’
‘They say best men are moulded out of faults, and for the most become much more better, for being a little bad’
‘Who will believe thee, Isabell?’
‘My unsoiled name…my place i’th state’
‘My false o’erweighs your true’
ESCALUS:
‘If any Vienna be of worth to undergo such ample grace and honour, it is lord Angelo’
‘Let us be keen, and rather cut a little. Than fall and bruise to death’
ISABELLA:
‘There is a vice to that most I do abhor, and most desire should meet the blow of justice’
‘Let it be his fault, and not my brother’
‘No ceremony that no great ones longs. Not this king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe become them with half so good a grace as mercy does’
‘But man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he’s most assured’
‘Th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies, and strip myself to death as bed’
‘Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die: more than our brother is our chastity’
‘I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death, no word to save thee’
‘I will to him and pluck out his eyes’
‘Make the truth appear where it seems his, and hide the false that seems true’
‘Let him not die. My brother had but justice, in that he did the thing for which he died, for Angelo’
‘O, just but severe law’
