MoV Quotes

• Bassanio

  'In Belmont is a lady richly left
• 'The devil can cite scripture for his purpose'
• Portia

  'I may neither choose who I would nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curb'd by the will of a dead father'
• Shylock

  'If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him'
• Morocco

  'Mislike me not for my complexion'
• Nerissa


  'What heinous sin is it in me to be ashamed of my father's child
• Morocco


  'But here an angel in a golden bed lies all within. Deliver me the key'
• Shylock


  'Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Kew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?'
• Portia?


  'The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath'
• Bassanio


  'Ornament is the most guiled shore to a most dangerous sea'
• Bassanio?


  'The painter plays the spider and hath woven a golden mesh t'entrap the hearts of man
• Bassanio?


  Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece
• Bassanio


  'To you, Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love
• Antonio


  'My purse, my person, my extremest means lie unlocked to your occasion'
• Antonio


  'You do me more wrong in making question of my uttermost than if you had made waste of all I am'
• Portia?


  'If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana unless obtained by the manner of my father's will'
• Portia


  'If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he shrive me than wive me'
• Antonio


  'The devil can cite scripture for his purpose'
• Shylock


  For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe
• Shylock


  'You who did void your rheum upon my beard, and foot me as you were spurn a stranger cur'
• Bassanio


  the dearest friend to me, the kindest man, the best conditioned and unwearied spirit
• Antonio


  I am as like to call thee so again, to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too
• Antonio


  The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind
• Jessica?


  I shall end this strife become a Christian and thy loving wife
• Salarino


  'Two stones, two rich and precious stones stolen by my daughter'
• Shylock


  To bait fish withal: if it will feel nothing else, it will feed my revenge
• Shylock


  'If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh?
• Antonio?


  I pray thee hear me speak
• Solanio


  Rebels at it this years?
• Shylock?


  laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, thwarted my bargain
• Shylock


  The villainy you teach me, I will execute
• Portia


  what is mine to you are yours now converted
• The Duke about Shylock


  A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity
• Antonio


  I am armed to suffer with a quietness of spirit the very tyranny and rage of his
• The Duke


  we all expect a gentle answer, Jew
• Portia


  Tis mightiest than the mightiest. It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown
• Portia


  One half of me is yours, the other half yours
• Antonio


  'For if the Jew do cut but deep enough, I'll pay it instantly with all my heart'
• Antonio


  'A stage where all men must play a part and mine a sad one'
• Bassanio


  'my wife and all the world are not with me esteemed above thy life. I would lose all, sacrifice them all'