"The Merchant of Venice" Quotes
A merchant in Venice borrows money from a Jewish moneylender and must contend with the consequences.
classics | 337 pages | Published in 1996
Quotes
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The very reason of the law; the bond, whereof the manacles of the strong are, love.
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.
Hath not a Jew eyes?
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
