merchant of Venice act 1 quotes

Question 1

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place

Answer 1

Antonio to Salarino and Salanio (wise and alert to dangers)

Question 2

‘Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
How much I have disabled mine estate,
By showing a far more swelling port
Than my faint means would grant continuance:

Answer 2

Bassanio to Antonio

Question 2

To you, Antonio,
I owe the most, in money and in love

Answer 2

Bassanio to Antonio (theme of money and love)

Question 3

be assured,
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock’d to your occasions.

Answer 3

Antonio to Bassanio

Question 3

In Belmont is a lady richly left;
And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes
I did recieve fair speechless messages:
Her name is Portia

Answer 3

Bassanio to Antonio

Question 4

therfore go forth;
Try what my credit can in Venice do:

Answer 4

Antonio to Bassanio

Question 4

I may neither choose whom I would nor I would refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father

Answer 4

Portia to Nerissa

Question 4

ere I’ll be married to a sponge.

Answer 4

Portia to Nerissa that she’d marry the German Duke of Saxony’s nephew, a drunk

Question 5

unless I be obtained by the manner of my father’s will.

Answer 5

Portia to Nerissa saying she’ll live as long as Sybylla and die as short as Diana unless she objects

Question 5

chests of gold, silver and lead

Answer 5

Nerissa to Portia referring to the game her father devised

Question 6

pirates
the peril of waters, winds and rocks

Answer 6

Shylock to Bassanio referring to the danger of having ships cross with your goods (Shylock is practical and realistic)

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Shylock to Bassanio

Question 6

[Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian,
But more for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usable here with us in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed him fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Answer 6

Shylock to himself

Question 7

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:
O, what a goodly sum outside falsehood truth!

Answer 7

Antonio to Bassanio about Shylock (appearance vs. reality)

Question 7

many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and usances:

Answer 7

Shylock to Antonio (rated means given out to)

Question 7

I am as like thee to call thee again

Answer 7

Antonio to Shylock (as likely to)

Question 8

But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty.

Answer 8

Antonio to Shylock

Question 8

merry sport

Answer 8

Shylock to Antonio

Question 8

the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleasesth me.

Answer 8

Shylock to Antonio

Question 8

there is much kindness in the Jew

Answer 8

Antonio to Bassanio