The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure
-- Act ii, Sc. 1
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure
-- Act ii, Sc. 1
Related:
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Measure for Measure -- Act ii, Sc.... - This will last out a night in Russia,
When nights are longest there.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure... - The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure... - Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Measure for Measure -- Act iv, Sc.... - Our compell'd sins
Stand more for number than for accompt.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure... - O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure... - O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure... - Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Measure for Measure -- Act ii, Sc.... - That in the captain 's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure...
