Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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?
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
The quality of mercy is not strained
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
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
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?
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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?
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
All that glisters is not gold.
The man that hath no music in himself
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.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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