
Measure for Measure

the body public be A horse whereon the governor doth ride, Who, newly in the seat, that it may know He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
liberty plucks justice by the nose;
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad:
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't Because we see it; but what we do not see We tread upon, and never think of it.
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured,