Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or crime:
“...the measure you give will be the measure you get...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 4:24.
Jesus.
“Lady Dellwyn ... for the first time began to entertain some suspicions that she had a heart to bestow. Not that she was actuated by that romantic passion which creates indifference to every other object and makes all happiness to consist in pleasing the beloved person, [but] only overstraining delicacy so much as to feel it almost a crime to charm any other.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)