Merchant of Venice Flashcards
Shylock
Three thousand ducats, well
Shylock
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you
Shylock
I will feed fat to the ancient grudge I bear him
Antonio
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose
Morocco
Mislike me not for my complexion/The shadowed livery of the burning sun
Lancelot
My master’s a very Jew. Give him a present! Give him a halter
Shylock
Fast bind, fast find/A proverb never stale in thrifty mind
Shylock
The villainy you teach me I will execute
Bassanio
O happy torment, when my torturer/Doth teach me answers for deliverance
Shylock
since I am a dog, beware my fangs’
Portia I have within my mind/A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks/Which I will practice”
Antonio
I do oppose/My patience to his fury, and am armed/To suffer with a quietness of spirit/The very tyranny and rage of his
Shylock
…for affection/Masters oft passion, sways it to the mood/Of what it likes or loathes
Gratiano
Not on thy sole but on thy soul,…/Thou mak’st thy knife keen
Portia
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s/When mercy seasons justice
Bassanio
To do a great right, do a little wrong
Shylock
There is no power in the tongue of man/To alter me
Portia
Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir’st
Antonio
Let his deservings and my love withal/Be valued ‘gainst your wife’s commandment
Portia
we’ll outface them and outswear them, too
Shylock
Antonio is a good man
Bassanio
Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
Antonio
Mark you this, Bassanio,
Antonio
Within these two months, that’s a month before
Antonio
Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
Shylock
I hate him for he is a Christian,
Shylock
Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit
Antonio
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
Shylock
This kindness will I show.
Portia
In terms of choice I am not solely led
Launcelot
My master’s a very Jew: give
Bassanio
I know thee well; thou hast obtain’d thy suit:
Bassanio
But hear thee, Gratiano;
Shylock
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;
Scroll in the golden chest
All that glitters is not gold;
Salanio
I never heard a passion so confused,
Scroll in the silver chest
The fire seven times tried this:
Shylock
a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the
Shylock
I am a Jew. Hath
Shylock
I would my daughter
Song Bassanio hears while choosing a chest
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Scroll in the lead chest
You that choose not by the view,
Letter from Antonio to Bassanio
Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all
Shylock
I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond:
Antonio
The duke cannot deny the course of law:
Launcelot
…we were Christians
Lorenzo
How every fool can play upon the word! I think the
Gratiano
Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,
Portia in disguise
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
Shylock
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
Bassanio
Antonio, I am married to a wife
Portia in disguise
Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
Gratiano
I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
Nerissa in disguise
Tis well you offer it behind her back;
Portia in disguise
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
Gratiano
O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!
Portia in disguise
It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
Antonio
So please my lord the duke and all the court
(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 35)
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray wit you.
(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 41)
I hate him for he is a Christian
(Act 1, Scene 3, Line 180)
Come on: in this there can be no dismay; My ships come home a month before the day.
(Act 2, Scene 1, Line 32)
If Hercules and Lichas play at dice, Which is the better man, he greater throw/ May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
(Act 2, Scene 2, Line 26)
Certainly, the Jew is the very devil incarnation, and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more friendly counsel:
(Act 2, Scene 2, Line 143)
The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of God, sir, and he hath enough.
(Act 2, Scene 8, Line 15)
My daughter! -O my ducats! -O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! -O my christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
Shylock If I can catch him once upon the hip, 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, on me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe if I forgive him.
Shylock Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?- fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? 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? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Portia There’s something tells me (but it is not love) I would not lose you; and you know yourself hate counsels not in such a quality. But lest you should not understand me well-And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought-I would detain you here some month or two before you venture for me. I could teach you how to choose right, but then I am forsworn.
Portia Beshrow your eyes! They have o’erlooked me and divided me; one half of me is yours, the other half yours-mine own I would say; but if mine then yours, and so all yours! O these naughty times puts bars between the owners and their rights! And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so, let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
Shylock I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. Thou call’dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, but since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
Shylock You have among you many a purchased slave, which like your asses and your dogs and mules you use in abject and in slavish parts, because you bought them. Shall I say to you, Let them be free! Marry them to hour heirs! Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds be made as soft as yours, and let their palates be seasoned with such viands”? You will answer, “The slaves are ours.”
Portia
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty, wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; but mercy is above the scept’red sway; it is enthroned in the hearts of kings, it is an attribute to God himself, and earthly power doth then show likest God’s when mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, through justice by thy plea, consider this: that, in the course of justice, note of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
Portia
Tarry a little; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; the words expressly are “a pound of flesh,” take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; but in the cutting it, if thou dost shed on drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods are by the laws of Venice confiscate unto the state of Venice.
Shylock
Nay, take my life and all! Pardon not that! 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.
Portia
He is well paid that is well satisfied, and I, delivering you, am satisfied, and therein do account myself well paid; my mind was never yet more mercenary. I pray you know me when we meet again.
Antonio
Therefore go forth; try what my credit can in Venice do
Shylock
I hate him for he is a Christian;
Shylock
Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
Shylock
You call me mis-believer, cut-throat dog
Shylock
You that did void your rheum upon my beard
Shylock
in a merry sport
Shylock
let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh to be cut off and taken in what part of your body pleaseth me
Solanio
I think he only loves the world for him
Shylock
She is damned for it
Shylock
My own flesh and blood to rebel !
Shylock
Let him look to his bond
Shylock Act 3 Scene 1
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? Hath not a Jew hands….. 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 villainy you teach me I will execute
Shylock Act 3 Scene 1
I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear !
Shylock Act 3 Scene 1
I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys
Portia , Act 3 Scene 2
Myself and what is mine to you and yours is now converted
Duke of Venice, Act 4 Scene 1
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Duke of Venice, Act 4 Scene 1
we all expect a gentle answer Jew
Shylock , Act 4 Scene 1
more than a lodged hate and a certain loathing I bear Antonio
Shylock Act 4 Scene 1
I would have my bond
Bassanio Act 4 Scene 1
thou unfeeling man
Gratiano Act 4 Scene 1
for thy desires are wolvish bloody starved and ravenous
Shylock Act 4 Scene 1
I crave the law
Shylock Act 4 Scene 1
by my soul I swear there is no power in the tongue of man to altar me
