Measure for Measure Quotes: Isabella

Question 1

1:2, 173

Answer 1

Claudio: There is a prone and speechless dialect

Such as move men […] well she can persuade

Question 2

1:4, 3

Answer 2

Isabella: I speak not desiring more,

But rather wishing a more strict restraint

Question 3

1:4, 34

Answer 3

Lucio: I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted

Question 4

1:4, 75

Answer 4

Isabella: Alas, what poor ability’s in me

To do him good!

Question 5

2:2, 29

Answer 5

Isabella: There is a vice that most I do abhor

Question 6

2:2, 42

Answer 6

Isabella: O just but severe law!

I had a brother, then

Question 7

2:2, 64

Answer 7

Isabella (to Angelo): If he had been as you, and you as he,

You would have slipp’d like him

Question 8

2:2, 75

Answer 8

Isabella: How would you be
If He, which is the top of judgement, should
But judge as you are?

Question 9

2:4, 31

Answer 9

Isabella: I am come to know your pleasure

Question 10

2:4, 101

Answer 10

Isabella: Th’impression of keen whips I’d wear as rubies,

And strip myself to death as to a bed

Question 11

2:4, 106-108

Answer 11

Isabella: Better it were a brother die at once
Than a sister, by redeeming him,
Should die forever.

Question 12

2:4, 181

Answer 12

Isabella: Before his sister should her body stoop

To such abhorr’d pollution.

Question 13

2:4, 183

Answer 13

Isabella: Then, Isabel live chaste, and brother, die:

More than our brother is our chastity.

Question 14

3:1, 64

Answer 14

Isabella: There is a devilish mercy in the judge […]
that will free your life,
But fetter you till death.

Question 15

3:1, 135

Answer 15

Isabella: O, you beast!
O faithless coward! […]
I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death;
No word to save thee.

Question 16

4:3, 119

Answer 16

(After the Duke tells her that Claudio is dead)

Isabella: O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!

Question 17

5:1, 26

Answer 17

Isabella: And given me justice! Justice! Justice! Justice!

Question 18

5:1, 40

Answer 18

Isabella: That Angelo’s forsworn; is it not strange?
That Angelo’s a murderer; is’t not strange?
That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
An hypocrite, a virgin violator;
Is it not strange and strange?

Question 19

5:1, 441

Answer 19

Isabella: [kneeling] [...]
I partly think
A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,
Till he did look on me. Since it is so,
Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
In that he did the thing for which he died:
For Angelo,
His act did not o'ertake his bad intent