Act 1, Scene 3:
Line 42: “I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.”
Line 45: “Curs’d. Be my tribe / If I forgive him!”
Line 93: “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” - Antonio
Line 97: “O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” - Antonio
Line 106: “You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, / And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine…”
Line 116: “‘Hath a dog money? Is it possible / A cur can lend three thousand ducats?’”
Line 130: “But lend it to thine enemy, / Who if he break, thou mayst with better face / Exact the
penalty.” - Antonio
Line 145: “Be nominated for an equal pound / of your fair esh, to be cut o and taken / In what part
of your body pleaseth me.”
Line 174: “The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind.” - Antonio
Act 2, Scene 2:
Line 24: “Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation” - Launcelot
Line 104: “…for I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer.” - Launcelot
Act 2, Scene 3:
Line 2: “Our house is hell” - Jessica
Line 18: “O Lorenzo, if thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, / Become a Christian and thy loving
wife.” - Jessica
Act 2, Scene 5:
Line 33: “If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, / It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake” Lorenzo
Act 2, Scene 6:
Line 54: “Farewell, and if my fortune be not cross’d, I have a father, you a daughter, lost.” - Jessica
Line 35: “Now by my hood, a gentle and no Jew!” - Gratiano about Jessica
Act 2, Scene 8:
Line 14, 15: “…As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: / ‘My daughter! O my ducats! O my
daughter!’” - Solanio
Act 3, Scene 1:
Line 19: “Let me say ‘amen’ betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer, / for here he comes in the
likeness of a Jew.” - Solanio
Line 34: “There is more di erence between thy esh and hers than between jet and ivory…”
Line 47: “If it will feed nothing else it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me…”
Line 52-59: “Hath not a Jew eyes? …”
Line 63-65: “The villainy you teach me I will execute… I will better the instruction.”
Line 103: “I’m very glad of it. I’ll plague him, I’ll torture him.”
Line 105: “…it was my turquoise, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for
a wilderness of monkeys.”
Act 3, Scene 2:
Line 284: “…That he would rather have Antonio’s esh / Than twenty times the value of the sum…”
Act 3, Scene 3:
Line 4-7: “I’ll have my bond, speak not against my bond… / Thou call’dst me a dog before thou
hadst a cause, / But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
Line 18: “It is the most impenetrable cur / That ever kept with men.” - Solanio
Act 3, Scene 5:
Line 16: “I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a Christian.” - Jessica
Line 59-61: “So can I give no reason, nor will I not, / More than a lodg’d hate and a certain loathing /
I bear Antonio…”
Line 63: “This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, / To excuse the current of thy cruelty.” - Bassanio
Line 69: “What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
Line 98-101: “The pound of esh which I demand of him…’tis mine…If you deny me, e upon your
law.”
Line 122: “Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?” - Bassanio
Line 125: “No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness / Of thy sharp envy.”
Line 138: “…for thy desires / Are wol sh, bloody, starv’d, and ravenous.”
Line 142: “I stand here for law.”
Line 179, 180: “Do you confess the bond?” “I do.” - Portia asks Antonio
Line 204, 205: “My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, / The penalty and forfeit of my bond.”
Line 215: “And curb this cruel devil of his will.” - Bassanio
Line 231: “Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.” - Portia
Line 306: “…If thou dost shed / One drop of Christian blood