Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's less frequently performed plays, but several quotes from it are well known.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
(Lucio, Act 1 Scene 5)
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
(Escalus, Act 2 Scene 1)
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
(Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2)
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
(Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2)
Is this her fault or mine?
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
(Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2)
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
(Claudio, Act 3 Scene 1)
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
(Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
(Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
(Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
Truth is truth
To th’end of reck’ning.
(Isabella, Act 5 Scene 1)
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.
(Duke, Act 5 Scene 1)
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
(Duke, Act 5 Scene 1)