“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.” “Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.” — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“ Truth is truth to the end of reckoning . What was that from? Measure for Measure ? But perhaps, truth was… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of… — Robin McLeavy Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in… — Baird T. Spalding Copy Share Image
I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Dried Plums with Wine and Ginger–Zest Crostini SERVES 8 TO 10 Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, saving your… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image