Merchants Quotes

• love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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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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• 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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• The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Instruction

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

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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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• I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Hands

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

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• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Play, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

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• Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy Of God, Venice, Justice

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

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• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Venice, World

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

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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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• All that glisters is not gold.

  Common

  Inspirational, Venice, Gold

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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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• But love is blind and lovers cannot see

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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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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• 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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• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

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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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• 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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• The man that hath no music in himself

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Philosophical, Men

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

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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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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Gold

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.57

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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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• You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Power, Venice

  '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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