Measure For Measure Quotes

Question 1

“City’s institutions” “common justice”

Answer 1

Duke 1:1

Question 2

“Lent him our terror, drest him with our love”

Answer 2

Duke 1:1

Question 3

“Let there be some more test made of my metal”

Answer 3

Angelo 1:1

Question 4

“No more evasion”

Answer 4

Duke 1:1

Question 5

“I love the people, but do not stage me to their eyes”

Answer 5

Duke 1:1

Question 6

“French velvet”

Answer 6

1st Gentleman, about Lucio 1:2

Question 7

“Madam Mitigation”

Answer 7

Lucio 1:2

Question 8

“Which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?”

Answer 8

1st Gentleman 1:2

Question 9

Brothels are to “be plucked down”

Answer 9

Pompey 1:2

Question 10

“Good counsellors lack no clients”

Answer 10

Pompey 1:2

Question 11

“O’er-grown lion in a cave that goes not out to prey”

Answer 11

Duke 1:3

Question 12

“Liberty plucks Justice by the nose, the baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart goes all decorum”

Answer 12

Duke 1:3

Question 13

“In you more dreadful” than Angelo

Answer 13

Friar 1:3

Question 14

Angelo “stands at guard with envy; scarce confesses that his blood flows”

Answer 14

Duke 1:3

Question 15

“Wishing a more strict restraint”

Answer 15

Isabella 1:4

Question 16

“Unhappy brother”

Answer 16

Lucio 1:4

Question 17

“Gentle and fair”

Answer 17

Lucio, about Isabella 1:4

Question 18

“He’s in prison”

Answer 18

Lucio (blunt delivery) 1:4

Question 19

“Make me not your story”

Answer 19

Isabella 1:4

Question 20

Angelo’s “blood is very snow-broth; one who never feels the wanton stings and motions of the sense; but doth rebate and blunt his natural edge with profits of the mind”

Answer 20

Lucio 1:4

Question 21

“Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer to soften Angelo”

Answer 21

Lucio 1:4

Question 22

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the gods we oft might win by fearing to attempt”

Answer 22

Lucio 1:4

Question 23

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law”

Answer 23

Angelo 2:1

Question 24

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”

Answer 24

Escalus 2:1

Question 25

“Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, and nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die”

Answer 25

Angelo (expects same punishment) 2:1

Question 26

“Respected” and “hannibal” are malapropisms

Answer 26

Elbow 2:1

Question 27

“Hadst thou not order? Why dost thou ask again?”

Answer 27

Angelo to the Provost 2:2

Question 28

“Dispose of her”

Answer 28

Angelo about Juliet 2:2

Question 29

“Condemn the fault and no the actor of it”

Answer 29

Angelo 2:2

Question 30

“You are too cold”

Answer 30

Lucio 2:2

Question 31

“If he had been as you, and you as he, you would have slipped like him, but he like you would not have been so stern”

Answer 31

Isabella 2:2

Question 32

“Mercy then will breathe within your lips, like man new made”

Answer 32

Isabella (if Angelo followed God then he would be more merciful) 2:2

Question 33

“He’s not prepared for death”

Answer 33

Isabella 2:2

Question 34

“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant”

Answer 34

Isabella 2:2

Question 35

“Because authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself that skins the vice o’th’top”

Answer 35

Isabella (can conceal their mistakes) 2:2

Question 36

“Is this her fault or mine? The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

Answer 36

Angelo 2:2

Question 37

“Nor doth she tempt”

Answer 37

Angelo 2:2

Question 38

“Most offenceful act”

Answer 38

Duke 2:3

Question 39

“Mutually committed”

Answer 39

2:3

Question 40

“Was your sin of a heavier kind than his?”

Answer 40

Duke 2:3

Question 41

“Plainly conceive, I love you”

Answer 41

Angelo 2:4

Question 42

“My brother did love Juliet, and you tell me that he shall die for it

Answer 42

Isabella 2:4

Question 43

“He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love”

Answer 43

Angelo 2:4

Question 44

“Who will believe thee, Isabel?”

Answer 44

Angelo 2:4

Question 45

“My false o’erweighs your true”

Answer 45

Angelo 2:4

Question 46

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope”

Answer 46

Claudio 3:1

Question 47

“Be absolute for death”

Answer 47

Duke (imperative and blunt, not comforting) 3:1

Question 48

“Yes, brother, you may live”

Answer 48

Isabella 3:1

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Claudio 3:1

Question 50

“Let me live. What sin you do to save a brother’s life, nature dispenses with the deed so far that it becomes a virtue”

Answer 50

Claudio 3:1

Question 51

“O, you beast! O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!”

Answer 51

Isabella 3:1

Question 52

“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good”

Answer 52

Duke (to Isabella) 3:1

Question 53

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful”

Answer 53

Duke 3:1

Question 54

“O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side”

Answer 54

Duke 3:1

Question 55

“The doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof”

Answer 55

Duke 3:1

Question 56

“It is certain that when he makes water, his urine is congealed ice”

Answer 56

Lucio, about Angelo 3:2

Question 57

“He had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service”

Answer 57

Lucio, about the Duke (claiming he drinks and sleeps around, to the Duke’s face) 3:2

Question 58

“Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry to anything which professed to make him rejoice”

Answer 58

Escalus, about the Duke (complimentary, the Duke asked him of his opinions) 3:2

Question 59

“He hath forced me to tell him that it is indeed Justice”

Answer 59

Escalus, about Angelo 3:2

Question 60

“I am always bound to you”

Answer 60

Mariana 4:1

Question 61

“I have not yet made known to Mariana a word of this”

Answer 61

Duke 4:1

Question 62

“Discredit our mystery”

Answer 62

Abhorson, about Pompey 4:2

Question 63

“You weigh equally: a feather will turn the scale”

Answer 63

Provost 4:2

Question 64

“I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession”

Answer 64

Pompey 4:3

Question 65

“I have been drinking all night; I am not fitted for it” “I will not consent to die this day”

Answer 65

Bernadine 4:3

Question 66

“Ragozine, a most notorious pirate”

Answer 66

Provost 4:3

Question 67

“Tis an accident that heaven provides”

Answer 67

Duke 4:3

Question 68

“He hath released him, He hath released him, Isabel, - from the world”

Answer 68

Duke 4:3

Question 69

“I am directed by you”

Answer 69

Isabella 4:3

Question 70

“This deed unshapes me quite”

Answer 70

Angelo 4:4

Question 71

“A deflowered maid; and by an eminent body, that enforced the law against it!”

Answer 71

Angelo 4:4

Question 72

“How might she tongue me!”

Answer 72

Angelo 4:4

Question 73

“For my authority bears so credent bulkthat no particular scandal once can touch, but it confounds the breather”

Answer 73

Angelo 4:4

Question 74

“O worthy Duke, you bid me seek redemption of the devil”

Answer 74

Isabella, about Angelo 5:1

Question 75

“She will speak most bitterly and strange”

Answer 75

Angelo 5:1

Question 76

“If she be mad, as I believe no other”

Answer 76

Duke 5:1

Question 77

“You were not bid to speak”

Answer 77

Duke, to Lucio 5:1

Question 78

“His integrity stands without blemish”

Answer 78

Duke, about Angelo 5:1

Question 79

“‘Tis a meddling Frair”

Answer 79

Lucio 5:1

Question 80

“I love the Duke as I love myself”

Answer 80

Duke, whilst still disguised (dramatic irony, comedy) 5:1

Question 81

“Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, like doth quit like, and measure still for measure”

Answer 81

Duke 5:1

Question 82

“What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine”

Answer 82

Duke 5:1