Merchant of venice Quotes by 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

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

— William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare

All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

What light through yonder window breaks?

— 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

“Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own,…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

— William Shakespeare

These blessed candles of the night.

— William Shakespeare

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

— William Shakespeare

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

— William Shakespeare

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

— William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare