| There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory. 3.1 | salarino to Shylock (about his daughter) |
| The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 3.1 | shylock |
| If you prick us do we not bleed?…And if you wrong us, shal we not revenge? 3.1 | shylock |
| Why thou loss upon loss–the thief gone with so much, and so much to find the thief, and no satisfaction, no revenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what lights my shoulders….no tears but o’my shedding. 3.1 | shylock |
| One half of me is yours, the other half yours — Mine own, I would say: but if mine then yours, and so all yours. 3.2 | portia |
| So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. 3.2 | bassanio |
| My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours: You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid. 3.2 | gratiano |
| I freely told you all the wealth I had ran in my veins: I was a gentleman. And then I told you true, and yet, dear lady, rating myself at nothing, you shall see hos much I was a braggart. When I told you my state was nothing, I should then have told you that I was worse than nothing… 3.2 | bassanio |
| I have engaged myself to a dear friend to feed my means | bassanio |
| Pay him 60000 and deface the bond. Double six thousand and then treble that before a friend shall lose a hair through Bassanio’s fault. 3.2 | bassanio |
| Thou call’dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, but since I am a dog, beware my fangs. 3. | shylock |
| Į never did repent for being good. 3.5 | portia |
| They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit that they shall think we are accomplished with that we lack. 3.5 | portia |
| I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two, and wear my dagger with the braver grace. 3.5 | portia |
| The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children | lancelot |
| It is very meet the lord Bassanio live an upright life, for having such a blessing in his lady he finds the joys of heaven here on earth. 3.5 | jessica |
| Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match, and on the wager lay two earthly women, and Portia one, there must be something else pawned with the other, for the poor rude world hath not her fellow. 3.5 | jessica |
| ….So can I give no reason, nor I will not, more than a lodge hate and a certain loathing I bear Antonio, that I follow thus a losing suit against him. 4.1 | shylock |
| Are you answered????? 4.1 | shylock |
| I am not bound to please with my answers. 4.1 | shylock |
| How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none? 4.1 | duke |
| What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong? 4.1 | shylock |
| You have among you many a purchased slave 4.1 | shylock |
| Not on thy sole but on thy soul harsh jew thou mak’st thy knife keen. 4.1 | gratiano |
| It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. 4.1 | portia |
| It is twice blest. 4.1 | portia |
| It is enthroned in the hearts of kings it is an attribute to God himself 4.1 | portia |
| …in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation 4.1 | portia |
| By my soul there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. 4.1 | shylock |
| I am armed and well prepared (to die). 4.1 | antonio |
| Grieve not that I am fall’n to this for you. For Fortune shows herself more kind than is her custom: it is still her use to let the wretched man outlive his wealth…. 4.1 | antonio |
| Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death. 4.1 | antonio |
| Repent but you that you shall lose your friend and he repents not that he pays your debt | antonio |
| But life itself, my wife, and all the world, are not with me esteemed above thy life. 4.1 | bassanio |
| A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine, the court awards it and the law doth give it. 4.1 | portia |
| …there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood. 4.1 | portia |
| I am content so he will let me have the other half in use, to render it upon his death unto the gentleman that lately stole his daughter. 4.1 | antonio |
| I pray you give me leave to go from hence; I am not well. Send the deed after me and I will sign it. 4.1 | shylock |
| He is well paid that is well satisfied. 4.1 | portia |
| There’s more depends on this (ring) than on the value. 4.1 | bassanio |
| Let him have the ring. 4.1 | antonio |
| I’ll see if I can get my husband’s ring which I did make him swear to keep for ever. 4.1 | nerissa |
Merchant of Venice quotations Act 3-4
July 24, 2019