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"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me."
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine."
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness."
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?"
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The very staff of my age, my very prop."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"An honest exceeding poor man."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the twinkling of an eye."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Must I hold a candle to my shames?"
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All that glisters is not gold."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Young in limbs, in judgment old."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Even in the force and road of casualty."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper!"
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let it serve for table-talk."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A harmless necessary cat."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?"
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I never knew so young a body with so old a head."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!"
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Is it so nominated in the bond?"
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is not in the bond."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Speak me fair in death."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"An upright judge, a learned judge!"
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word."
The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain