Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
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