Measure For Measure

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: We are all frail.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 4, l. 121.

QUOTATION: Death is a fearful thing.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 1, l. 115.

QUOTATION: A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lucio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 2, l. 139-40.

QUOTATION: I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lucio, in Measure for Measure, act 4, sc. 4, l. 179.

QUOTATION: The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 1.

QUOTATION: The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 1, l. 2-3 (1623).

QUOTATION: Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Duke, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc. 1, l. 208.

QUOTATION: What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Duke, in Measure for Measure, act 5, sc. 1, l. 537.

QUOTATION: The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 2, l. 90.

QUOTATION: Thieves for their robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Angelo, in Measure for Measure, act 2, sc. 2, l. 175-6.

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