Duke to Antonio | “Thou art come to answer a stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity, void and empty from any dram of mercy.” |
Shylock to Duke | “To have the due and forfeit of my bond. If you deny it, let the danger light upon your charter and your city’s freedom!” |
Antonio to Bassanio | “Therefore I do beseech you make no mor offers, use no farther means, but with all brief and plain conveniency let me have judgement, and the Jew his will.” |
Shylock to Duke | “What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong?” |
Shylock to Duke | “The pound of flesh which I demand of him is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it. If you deny me, fie upon your law!” |
Bassanio to Antonio | “The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones, and all, ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.” |
Portia to Shylock | “It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.” |
Bassanio to Portia | “That malice bears down truth. And I bessech you, wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong, and curb this cruel devil of his will.” |
Shylock to Portia | “By my soul I swear there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. I stay here on my bond.” |
Antonio to Bassanio | “Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death; and when the tale is told, bid her be judge whether Bassanio had not once a love.” |
Portia to Shylock | “But in the cutting it if thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods are by the laws of Venice confiscate unto the state of Venice.” |
Portia to Bassanio | “He hath refused it in the open court. He shall have merely justice and his bond.” |
Antonio to Duke | “To quit the fine for one half of his goods, 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.” |
SHAKESPEARE’S MERCHANT OF VENICE- Act 4 Quotes
July 12, 2019