| Hie thee, | gentle Jew. The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind |
| The duke cannot | deny the course of law… if it be denied will much impeach the justice of his state |
| My purse, | my person, my extremest means lie all unlock’ to your occasions |
| I hold the world | but as a world, Gratiano; a stage where everyman must play a part and mine a sad one |
| In sooth | I know not why I am so sad |
| Most heartily | I do beseech the court to give the judgement |
| Why then, | you are in love. |
| Neither have I | money nor commodity to raise a present sum; therefore go forth, try what my credit can in Venice do |
| I am as like | to call thee so again, to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too |
| I never knew | so young a body with so an old head |
| Tarry a little; | there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood. |
| Have by some | surgeon, Shylock on your charge, to stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death |
| O love, | dispatch all business and be gone! |
| My little body | is aweary of this great world |
| What, no more? | Pay him six thousand and deface the bond. Double six thousand, and then treble that |
| So is the will | of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father |
| In Belmont there | is a lady richly left, and she is fair |
| If he have the condition | of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me |
| Pay the | petty debt twenty times over |
| If it will feed | nothing else, it will feed my revenge |
| Many a time | and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my money and my usances |
| He lends out | money gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Venice |
| I hate him | for he is Christian |
| I’ll have my bond. | Speak not against my bond. I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. |
| I will buy | with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor will I pray with you |
| My daughter! | O my ducats! O my daughter! |
| Two thousand ducats | in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter be dead at my foot. |
| You call me | misbeliever, cutthroat dog, and spet upon my Jewish gabardine |
| Tis not unknown | to you how much i have disabled mine estate |
| You shall not | seal to such a bond for me: I’ll rather dwell in my necessity |
| [aside] Why, | I were best to cut my left hand off and swear I lost the ring defending it |
| To you, Antonio, | I owe the most in money and in love |
| I would lose | all, ay, sacrifice them all to this devil, to deliver you |
| I am glad ’tis | night, you do not look on me |
| Farewell, and | if my fortune not be crossed. I have a father, and you a daughter, lost |
| I will make | fast the doors and glid myself with some more ducats |
| How I shall | take her from her father’s house, what gold and jewels she is furnished with |
| If I can | catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation. |
| What heinous sin | is it in me to be ashamed to be my father’s child? |
| Thou wilt show | thy mercy… But, touched with human gentleness and love… we all expect a gentle answer, Jew |
| But lend it | rather to thine enemy, who, if he breaks, thou mayst with better face exact the penalty |
| He seek the | life of any citizen, the party ‘gainst which he contrive shall seize half his goods |
| He presently | become a Christian |
Merchant of Venice quotes
July 11, 2019