Merchant of Venice Quotes for test

"But lend it rather to thine enemy/Who, if he break, thou mayest with better face/Exact the penalty" (I,iii,145-147)

Antonio

"I am like to call thee so again,/To spet on thee again, to spurn thee, too" (I,iii,140-141)

Antonio

"My purse, my person, my extremest means/Lie all unlocked to your occasion" (I,i,145-146)

Antonio

"The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind" (I,iii,191)

Antonio

"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose!/An evil soul producing holy witness/Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,/A goodly apple rotten at the heart." (I,iii,107-110)

Antonio

"Within these two months-that's a month before/This bond expires-I do expect return/Of thrice three times the value of this bond" (I,iii,169-171)

Antonio

"I will assume desert" (II,ix,55)

Arragon

"I will not choose what many men desire,/Because I will not jump with common spirits/And rank me with the barbarous multitude" (II,ix,33-35)

Arragon

"Let none presume/To wear an undeserved dignity" (II,ix,42-43)

Arragon

"...her sunny locks/Hang on her temples like a golden fleece...And many Jasons come in quest of her" (I,i,171-174)

Bassanio

"Antonio, I am married to a wife/Which is as dear to me as life itself,/But life itself, my wife, and all the world/Are not with me esteemed above thy life./I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all/Here to this devil, to deliver you." (IV,i,294-299)

Bassanio

"His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search" (I,i,122-125)

Bassanio

"How many cowards whose hearts are all as false/As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins/The beards of Hercules and growing Mars" (III,ii,85-87)

Bassanio

"The world is still deceived with ornament" (III,ii,76)

Bassanio

"Therefore, then, thou gaudy gold,/Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee" (III,ii,103-105)

Bassanio

"Thou art come to answer/A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,/Uncapable of pity, void and empty/From any dram of mercy" (IV,i,3-6)

Duke (might not be on test)

"I have a wife who I protest I love./I would she were in heaven,so she could/Entreat some power to change this currish Jew." (IV,i,302-304)

Gratiano

"O, be thou damned, inexecrable dog,/And for thy life let justice be accused;/Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith,/To hold opinion with Pythagoras/That souls of animals infuse themselves/Into the trunks of men." (IV,i,130-135)

Gratiano

"I have heard him swear/To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,/That he would rather have Antonio's flesh/Than twenty times the value of the sum/That he did owe him" (III,ii,296-300)

Jessica

"O Lorenzo,/If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,/Become a Christian and thy loving wife" (II,iii,19-21)

Jessica

"All that glisters is not gold-/Often have you heard that told./ Many a man his life hath sold/But my outsides to behold. Gilded tombs do worms infold." (II,vii,73-77)

Morocco

"All the world desires her./From the four corners of the earth they come/To kiss this shrine, this mortal, breathing saint" (II,vii,44-46)

Morocco

"By this scimitar/That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince,/That won three fields of Sultan Solyman..." (II,i,25-27)

Morocco

"Good fortune then,/To make me blest-or cursed'st among men!" (II,i,48-49)

Morocco

"Mislike me not for my complexion" (II,i,1)

Morocco

"...lott'ry of my destiny" (II,i,15)

Portia

"If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as/ chaste as Diana unless I be obtained by the manner/ of my father's will" (I,ii,106-108)

Portia

"If he have the condition of/ a saint but the complexion of the devil, I had rather/ he should shrive me than wive me" (I,ii,129-131)

Portia

"It is an attribute to God himself" (IV,i,201)

Portia

"Which is the merchant here? And which the Jew?" (IV,i,176)

Portia

"...in the Narrow Seas that part/The French and English , there miscarried/A vessel of our country richly fraught./I thought upon Antonio when he told me,/And wished in silence that is were not his" (II,viii,30-34)

Salarino (might not be on test)

"The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better this instruction" (III,i,70-72)

Shylock

"These be the Christian husbands! I have a daughter-/Would any of the stock of Barabbas/Had been her husband, rather than a Christian!" (IV,i,307-310)

Shylock

"Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause,/But since I am a dog, beware my fangs" (III,iii,7-8)

Shylock

"wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?" (IV,i,70)

Shylock