Measure for Measure Quotes: Law, Justice and Mercy

Question 1

2:2, 131

Answer 1

Isabella: That in the captain’s but a choleric word,

Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Question 2

2:1, 1

Answer 2

Angelo: We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.

Question 3

1:1, 44

Answer 3

Duke: Mortality and mercy in Vienna

Live in thy tongue, and heart.

Question 4

3:2, 5

Answer 4

Provost: All sects, all ages smake of this vice, and he

To die for’t?

Question 5

4:2, 168

Answer 5

Duke: By the vow of mine order, I warrant you, if my instructions may be your guide: let this Barnadine be this morning executed, and his head borne to Angelo.

Question 6

1:3, 23

Answer 6

Duke: Having bound up in the threatening twigs of birch,
Only to stick it in their children’s sight
For terror, not to use, in time the rod
Becomes more mock’d that fear’d:

Question 7

2:1, 222

Answer 7

Escalus: Is it a lawful trade?
Pompey: If the law would allow it, sir.

Question 8

4:2, 118

Answer 8

Provost (reads): Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the clock,

Question 9

2:2, 108

Answer 9

Isabella: O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.