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

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

— 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

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

— William Shakespeare

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

— William Shakespeare

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

— William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

— William Shakespeare

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

— William Shakespeare