Merchant Of Venice Quotes - Page 3

• Do all men kill the things they do not love?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Venice, Killing

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Silence, Saying Nothing

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

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• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Bait, Opinion

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Atheism, Ornaments

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

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cat, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Venice, Shylock

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

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• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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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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• Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Venice

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.69, Barron's Educational Series

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• By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.205

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• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Now is the winter of our discontent.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Most Memorable

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Venice, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

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

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• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, May

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

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• I beseech you,
  Wrest once the law to your authority:
  To do a great right, do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Justice, Littles

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Errors, Law

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

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• In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Stuff, Born

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

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• In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Voice, Venice

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

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

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

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• These blessed candles of the night.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Night, Candle

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220

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• Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

  William Shakespeare

  Infidelity, Hips, Merchants

  William Shakespeare (1869). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.90

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