Merchant of Venice Quotations :o
“A stage where every man must play his part, and mine is a sad one”
- Antonio
“Gratiano speaks an indefinite deal of nothing, more than any man in Venice”
- Bassanio
“To you Antonio I owe the most in money and love”
- Bassanio
“Where money is, and I no question make to have it of my trust, or for my
sake”
- Antonio
“I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse who I dislike”
- Portia
“I hate him for he is a Christian”
- Shylock
“A goodly apple rotten at the heart”
- Antonio
“many time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my
usances.”
- Shylock
“Hie thee gentle Jew. The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind”
- Antonio
“Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation”
- Launcelot
“You must not deny me, I must go with you to Belmont”
“Our house is hell”
- Gratiano
- Jessica
“O Lorenzo if thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, become a Christian
and thy loving wife.”
- Jessica
“Farewell, and if my fortune be not crossed, I have a father, you a daughter
lost.
- Jessica
“ ‘Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire’. Why that’s the lady, all
the world desires her.”
- Morocco
“Justice! The law! My ducats, and my daughter!”
“How unlike my hopes and deservings.”
- Shylock
- Arragon
“The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better
the instruction.”
- Shylock
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“thou torturest me Tubal. It was my turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a
bachelor.”
- Shylock
“And here choose I, joy be the consequence.”
- Bassanio
“But the full sum of me is the sum of nothing”
- Portia
“I give then this ring, which when you part from, lose, or give away, let it
presage the ruin of your love.”
- Portia
“When I told you my state was nothing, I should then have told you that I was
worse than nothing”
- Bassanio
“be of good cheer, for truly I think you are damned.”
- Launcelot
“It is very meet the Lord Bassanio live an upright life, for having such a
blessing in his lady”
- Jessica
“A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity”
- Duke
“So can I give no reason, nor I will not, more than a lodged hate and a certain
loathing”
- Shylock
“I stand for judgement – answer, shall I have it?”
- Shylock
“O, be thou damned, inexecrable dog” =D
- Gratiano
“The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from
heaven”
- Portia
“My deeds upon my head, I crave the law”
- Shylock
“Is it so nominated in the bond?”
- Shylock
“life itself, my wife, and all the world … I would lose all, ay sacrafice them all”
- Bassanio
“O Jew, an upright judge, a learned judge.”
- Gratiano
“He shall have merely justice and the bond”
- Portia
“I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it”
- Duke
“Two things provided more, that for this favour, he presently become a
Christian; the other that he do record a gift … unto his son Lorenzo and his
daughter.”
- Antonio
“And for your love, I’ll take this ring from you.”
- Portia
“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank. Here will we sit, and let the
sounds of music creep in our ears”
- Lorenzo
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“I would deny it; but see my finger hath not the ring upon it, it is gone”
- Bassanio
“I’ll not deny him anything I have, no, not my body, nor my husband’s bed”
- Portia
“Pardon me Bassanio, for this ring the doctor lay me”
“I am dumb”
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- Portia
- Antonio