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  • I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

    Men   Play   Venice  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77
  • I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

    Music   Sweet   Venice  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69
  • The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
  • The quality of mercy is not strained

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]
  • I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

    Dog   Oracles   Lips  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88
  • The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]
  • We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]
  • I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65
  • If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

    Men   Venice   Church  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]
  • There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

    Race   Two   Differences  
  • Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

    Venice   Strange   Framed  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50
  • I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88
  • So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73
  • These blessed candles of the night.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 220
  • Do all men kill the things they do not love?

    William Shakespeare (2013). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English”, p.3541, BookCaps Study Guides
  • All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

    William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.92
  • When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

    Memorable   Men   Littles  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press
  • The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

    Venice   Fruit   Kind  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 114
  • The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

    Music   Sweet   Men  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79
  • You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

    Life   Mean   Punishment  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]
  • There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

    Summer   Sleep   Air  
    Source: www.rawkblog.net
  • Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

    Hate   Men   Venice  
    William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.69, Barron's Educational Series
  • There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

    Simple   Venice   Shylock  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73
  • But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1
  • The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

    Kings   Rain   Heart  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]
  • Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

    Rain   Men   Venice  
  • The man that hath no music in himself

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79
  • Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

    Love   Cat   Men  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47
  • I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

    Law   Justice   Littles  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]
  • In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

    Law   Voice   Venice  
    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73
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