Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

813 Shakespeare Quotes
“All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.”
William Shakespeare Quotes