SHAKESPEARE’S MERCHANT OF VENICE- Act 4 Quotes

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.”