Venice Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Church, Cottages

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

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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, Shylock

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

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• Streets flooded. Please advise.

  Robert Benchley

  Please, Advise, Streets

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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• Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

  Jan Morris

  Over You, Domes, Shoulders

  1960 Venice.

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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

  Stuff, Born, Made

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

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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, Apples, Evil

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

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• He is well paid that is well satisfied.

  William Shakespeare

  Satisfaction, Satisfied, Wells

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [416]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Answers

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

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• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Shylock, Tribes

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

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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, Evil

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

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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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• O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Shylock, Dishonesty

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Fancy

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

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

  William Shakespeare

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

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Shylock, Vices

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Shylock, Ifs

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Fruit, Kind, Merchants

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Villain, Term

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

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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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• It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

  Erica Jong

  Glasses, Mirrors, Self

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

  Arthur Symons

  Saws, Realist, Faithfulness

  Arthur Symons (1907). “Cities of Italy”

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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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