"This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?"

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?"

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt."

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"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."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"The cunning livery of hell."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction 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 region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"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."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!"

Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain."

Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"Every true man's apparel fits your thief."

Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"We would, and we would not."

Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion."

Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Truth is truth To the end of reckoning."

Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

"My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna."

Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad."

Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

"What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.

"The pleasing punishment that women bear."

The Comedy of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1.

"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity."

The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Every why hath a wherefore."

The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy."

The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

"A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man."

The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another."

The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

"He hath indeed better bettered expectation."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"A very valiant trencher-man."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"There 's a skirmish of wit between them."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"The gentleman is not in your books."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?"

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Benedick the married man."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"He is of a very melancholy disposition."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"As merry as the day is long."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Speak low if you speak love."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose."

Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.