Merchant Of Venice Quotes

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

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

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

The quality of mercy is not strained

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.

All that glisters is not gold.

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.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

All is well that ends well

So shines a good deed… in a weary world.