Portia(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 22) | “I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.” |
Portia(Act 1, Scene 2, Line 55) | “God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.” |
Shylock(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 35) | “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 pray wit you.” |
Shylock(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 41) | “I hate him for he is a Christian” |
Antonio(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 180) | “Come on: in this there can be no dismay; My ships come home a month before the day.” |
Prince of Morocco(Act 2, Scene 1, Line 32) | “If Hercules and Lichas play at dice, Which is the better man, he greater throw/ May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:” |
Launcelot(Act 2, Scene 2, Line 26) | “Certainly, the Jew is the very devil incarnation, and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more friendly counsel:” |
Launcelot(Act 2, Scene 2, Line 143) | “The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of God, sir, and he hath enough.” |
Jessica(Act 2, Scene 3, Line 16) | “Alack, what heinous sin is it in me, To be asham’d to be my father’s child! But though I am a daughter to his blood, I am not to his manners.” |
Lorenzo(Act 2, Scene 4, Line 33) | “If e’er the Jew her father come to Heaven, It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake;” |
(The Writing in the) Golden Casket(Act 2, Scene 7, Line 67) | “All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold, But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms infold. Had you been as wise as bold, young in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been inscroll’d: Fare you well; your suit is cold.” |
Solanio (quoting Shylock)(Act 2, Scene 8, Line 15) | “My daughter! -O my ducats! -O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! -O my christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter! |
Prince of Morocco(Act 2, Scene 1, Line 6) | “And let us make incision for your love, To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.” |
Portia(Act 2, Scene 1, Line 14) | “In terms of choice I am not solely led By nice direction of a maiden’s eyes: Besides, the lottery of my destiny Bars me the right of voluntary choosing” |
Old Gobbo(Act 2, Scene 2, Line 72) | “Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not” |
Shylock(Act 2, Scene 5, Line 13) | “I am not bid for love; they flatter me: But yet I’ll go in hate, to feed upon The prodigal Christian.” |
Shylock(Act 2, Scene 5, Line 54) | “Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.” |
Jessica(Act 2, Scene 5, Line 55) | “Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost, I have a father, you a daughter, lost.” |
Jessica(Act 2, Scene 6, Line 37) | “But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.” |
Merchant of Venice Quotes Act 1 & 2
July 16, 2019