This house, if it be not a bawd’s house, it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.
Quotes from Measure for Measure — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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And he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not.
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Ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd.
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We have strict statutes and most biting laws.
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The unfolding star calls up the shepherd.
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The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope:
I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.
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Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them;
But, in the less, foul profanation.
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
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Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
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Though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
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Go to your bosom;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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It may be right; but you are i' the wrong
To speak before your time.
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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
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'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
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Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
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She hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.
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O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
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