Angelo quotes

Angelo quotes

1. ‘Morality and mercy in Vienna/ Live in thy tongue, and heart.’ - Duke (1.1)

2. ‘Let there be some more test made of my metal, / Before so noble and so great a figure/ Be stamped upon it.’ - Angelo (1.1)

3. ‘Your soul seems good.’ - Duke about Angelo (1.1)

4. ‘demi -god’ - Claudio about Angelo (1.2)

5. ‘The body public be/ A horse whereon the governor doth ride.’ - Claudio (1.2)

6. ‘Lord Angelo is precise;/ Stands at a guard with Envy; scarce confesses/ That his blood flows; or that his appetite/ Is more to bread than stone’ (1.3)

7. ‘Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood/ Is very snow-broth; one who never feels’ - Lucio about Angelo (1.4)

8. ‘We must not make a scarecrow of the law’ - Angelo (2.1)

9. ‘’Tis one thing to be tempted,...,Another thing to fall.’ - Angelo (2.1)

10. ‘The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept’ - Angelo (2.2)

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

12. ‘Proud man,/ Dressed in a little brief authority’ - Isabella (2.2)

13. ‘Angry ape’ - Isabella about Angelo (2.2)

14. ‘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)

15. ‘The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most’ - Angelo (2.2)

16. ‘O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,/ With saints dost bait thy hook!’ - Angelo (2.2)

17. ‘When I would pray and think, I think and pray’ - Angelo (2.4)

18. ‘Heaven in my mouth, / As if I did but only chew his name’ - Angelo (2.4)

19. ‘Blood, thou art blood.’ - Angelo (2.4)

20. ‘Let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn - ‘Tis not the devil’s crest’ - Angelo (2.4)

21. ‘Saucy sweetness’ - Angelo (2.4)

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

23. ‘My false o’erweighs your true’ - Angelo to Isabella (2.4)

24. ‘My false o’erweighs your true’ - Angelo to Isabella (2.4)

25. ‘Damned Angelo’ - Isabella (4.3)

26. ‘Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.’ - Angelo (4.4)

27. ‘Virgin-violator’ - Isabella about Angelo (5.1)

28. ‘An Angelo for Claudio; death for death. Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure.’ - Duke (5.1)

29. ‘That I crave death more willingly than mercy’ - Angelo (5.1)

30. ‘They say best men are moulded out of faults’ - Isabella