The Merchant of Venice QUOTES

• "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad".
• "By my troth Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world".
• "To you Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love".
• "Within the eye of honour, be assured my purse, my person and my extremest means lie all unlocked to your occasions".
• "Let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh to be cut off and taken in what part of your body pleaseth me".
• "You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine".
• "I hate him for he is a Christian, but more for that in low simplicity he lends out money gratis".
• "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath; it is twice blest: blesseth him that gives and him that takes".
• "Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?".