Merchant Of Venice Quotes - Page 2

• I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Oracles, Lips

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• 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 to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Men, Church

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

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Deceit, World

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• 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: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Rain, Heart

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

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• Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hair, White

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

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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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• 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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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

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

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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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• 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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• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Strange, Framed

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50

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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• All that glisters is not gold.

  Common

  Inspirational, Venice, Gold

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• The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Fruit, Kind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 114

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Boards, Ships

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [22]

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Praise, Timeliness

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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