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  • Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

    Angel   Pride   Men  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117
  • I have a background in theater. At the time I read The Loved Ones script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Isabella in Measure for Measure.

    Russia   Desire   Scripts  
    "Next Factor Q&A: 'The Loved Ones' Star Robin McLeavy". Interview with Robert DeSalvo, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2012.
  • The sense of death is most in apprehension.

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75
  • If you can’t measure it, you can’t fix it.

    DJ Patil (2011). “Building Data Science Teams”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

    1603 Angelo to Isabella. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.92.
  • Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

    Death   Lying   Ice  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114
  • Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

    Fall   Memorable   Sin  
    1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.
  • Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

    Men   Thieves   Fit  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]
  • The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

    Hands   Fairness   Made  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [182]
  • 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.

    Law   Bird   Shapes  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 1
  • Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

    Baby   Nurse   Justice  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 1, sc. 3, l. 23
  • Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]
  • O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

    Peace   Power   Strenght  
    "Measure for Measure".
  • To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.

    Law   Giving   Receiving  
  • O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

    Angel   Men   Hypocrisy  
    William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.334
  • When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

    Math   Science   Numbers  
    Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
  • Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37
  • The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

    Death   Dying   Age  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114
  • The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

    Death   Giants   Poor  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75
  • All is well that ends well

    Wise   Drama   Italian  
    Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
  • If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 81
  • As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

    Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.67, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

    1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.
  • The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2
  • Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

    Men   Ignorant   Proud  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117
  • The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162
  • If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

  • There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.315
  • In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

    Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
  • All surfeit is the father of much fast.

    William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA
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