Quotes Flashcards
(23 cards)
Metal- Escalus
‘Let there be some more test made of my metal’
Duke-Laws slipping
‘Which for this fourteen years we have let slip’
Duke- things have gone wrong
‘liberty plucks justice by the nose,
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum’
Luccio- Angelo’s cold blood
‘Blood is very snow broth’
Luccio- Antonio’s lack of sense
‘Never feels the wanton stings and motions of the sense’
Angelo- Make sure the law is a real threat
‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law’
Escalus- being keen
‘Let is he keen and rather cut a little than fall and bruise to death’
Antonio- difference between temptation and falling
‘Tis one thing to be tempted Escalus, another thing to fall’
Angelo-danger of temptation
‘Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue’
Provost- Juliet’s reputation
‘Hath blister’d her report’
Angelo- God is no longer listening
‘Heaven hath my empty words’
Angelo- evil in his heart
‘In my heart the strong and swelling evil’
Angelo- sin can do good
‘Might there not be a charity in sin’
Isabella- dying forever
‘Better it were a brother died at once than that a sister by redeeming him should die forever’
Angelo- people will believe him over Isabel
‘My false o’erweighs your true’
Isabel-rather give her life
‘O were it but my life’
Duke Vincentio- Angelo’s hidden personality
‘O what may man within him hide though angel on the outward side’
Duke- equality and fairness in death
‘An Angelo for Claudio, death for death’
Luccio- on having to marry a prostitute
‘Marrying a punk my lord is pressing to death, whipping and hanging’
Justice-Angelo’s true nature
‘Lord Angelo is severe’
Duke- what people think of Angelo
‘A man of stricture and firm abstinence’
Duke- how to rule Vienna
‘Let mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue and heart’
Duke- on love
‘Believe not that the dribbling dart of love can pierce a complete bosom’
