“In sooth I know not why I am so sad.” | Antonio |
“I hold the world but as the world… A stage where everyman must play a part, and mine a sad one.” | Antonio |
“I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.” | Gratiano |
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing..” | Bassanio |
“To you, Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love.” | Bassanio |
“I have engaged myself to a dear friend, engaged my friend to his mere enemy, to feed my means.” | Bassanio |
“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.” | Portia |
“The quality of mercy is not strained.” | Portia |
“Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.” | Portia |
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” | Lancelot |
“Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” | Lancelot |
“But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit…” | Jessica |
“I am never merry when I hear sweet music.” | Jessica |
“…he would rather have Antonio’s flesh than twenty times the value of the sum that he did owe him.” | Jessica |
“How sweet the moonlight sweeps upon this bank.” | Lorenzo |
“Hath not a Jew eyes?” | Shylock |
“You have among you many a purchased slave…the pound of flesh which I demand of him is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it.” | Shylock |
“My daughter! Oh my ducats! Oh, my daughter! Fled with a Christian! Oh, my Christian ducats!” | Shylock |
“All that glisters is not gold” | Scroll |
“The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction”. | Shylock |
“Be merciful, take thrice the money, bid me tear the bond”. | Portia |
“He is well paid that is well satisfied”. | Portia |
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge”. | Shylock |
“An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek”. | Antonio |
“I did dream of money bags tonight”. | Shylock |
The Merchant of Venice Quotes, character, themes, language features
July 28, 2019