Merchant of venice Quotes by William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

— William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

— William Shakespeare

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

— William Shakespeare

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

— William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained

— William Shakespeare

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did…

— William Shakespeare

“It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice,…

— William Shakespeare

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the…

— William Shakespeare

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?…

— William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught…

— William Shakespeare

Do all men kill the things they do not love …… The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the…

— William Shakespeare

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren…

— William Shakespeare

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do…

— William Shakespeare

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not…

— William Shakespeare

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat…

— William Shakespeare

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,…

— William Shakespeare

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die…

— William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice…

— William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself

— William Shakespeare

These blessed candles of the night.

— William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

— William Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

— William Shakespeare

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare