Merchant Of Venice Quotes

• What light through yonder window breaks?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Mind, Villain

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• The quality of mercy is not strained

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy Of God, Gentle Rain, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

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• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

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• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, World, Care

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 74

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

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• O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• You take my house when you do take the prop
  That doth sustain my house; you take my life
  When you do take the means whereby I live.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Mean, Punishment

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Venice, Apples

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Shylock

  William Shakespeare (1859). “Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays”

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• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Venice, Laughing

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Venice, Mercy Of God

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Men, Venice

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• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Revenge, Humility

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, Mercy Of God, Venice

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• All that glitters is not gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter

  David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

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