Isabella quotes

Isabella quotes

1. ‘For in her youth/ There is a prone and speechless dialect/ Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art/.../ And well she can persuade.’ - Claudio (1.2)

2. ‘But rather wishing a more strict restraint’ - Isabella (1.4)

3. ‘Virtuous maid’ - Provost (2.2)

4. ‘For which I would not plead, but that I must;/ For which I must not plead, but that I am.’ - Isabella to Angelo (2.2)

5. ‘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.’ - Isabella (2.2)

6. ‘Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once’ - Isabella (2.2)

7. ‘He’s not prepared for death’ - Isabella about Claudio (2.2)

8. ‘To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous/ To use it like a giant.’ - Isabella (2.2)

9. ‘Go to your bosom,/ Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know/ That’s like my brother’s fault.’ - Isabella to Angelo (2.2)

10. ‘I had rather give my body than my soul.’ - Isabella (2.4)

11. ‘You must lay down the treasures of your body/ To this supposed, or else to let him suffer’ - Angelo (2.4)

12. ‘More than our brother is our chastity’ - Isabella (2.4)

13. ‘O, you beast! O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!’ - Isabella (3.1)

14. ‘Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?’ - Isabella (3.1)

15. ‘Justice! Justice! Justice! Justice!’ - Isabella (5.1)

16. ‘It is ten times true, for truth is truth’ - Isabella (5.1)

17. ‘To make the truth appear where it seems hid, And hide the false seems true.’ - Isabella (5.1)

18. ‘Give me your hand and say you will be mine.’ - Duke to Isabella (5.1)

19. ‘What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.’ - Duke to Isabella (5.1)