merchant of Venice act 3 quotes

Question 1

Why, yet it lives there uncheck’d that Antonio hath a ship of rich
Lading wrecked on the narrow seats;

Answer 1

Salarino to Salanio (build up of tension)

Question 2

Let him look to his bond

Answer 2

Shylock to Salarino and Salanio

Question 3

Hath not a Jew eyes?

Answer 3

Shylock to Salanio and Salarino

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Shylock to Salanio and Salarino

Question 5

And it shall go hard but I will better the instruction

Answer 5

Shylock to Salanio and Salarino

Question 6

A diamond gone
2 thousand ducats in that

Answer 6

Shylock to Tubal

Question 7

I would my daughter dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ears!

Answer 7

Shylock to Tubal

Question 8

An argosy cast away

Answer 8

Tubal to Shylock

Question 9

I will have the heart of him

Answer 9

Shylock to Tubal

Question 10

So may the outward show be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.

Answer 10

Bassanio to Portia (appearance vs. Reality)

Question 11

I will none of thee;
Nor none of thee,

Answer 11

Bassanio to Portia

Question 12

And here choose I: joy be the consequence!

Answer 12

Bassanio to Portia

Question 13

but now,
This house, these servants and this same self
Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;
Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
Let it presage the ruin of your love
And be my vantage to exclaim on you.

Answer 13

Portia to Bassanio (subplot if the rings)

Question 14

But when this ring
Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:
O, then be bold to say Bassanio’s dead!

Answer 14

Bassanio to Portia

Question 15

I do beseech you,
Even at a time I may be married too.

Answer 15

Gratiano to Bassanio and Portia

Question 16

When I told you
My state was nothing, I should have told you
That I was worse than nothing;for, indeed,
I have engaged myself to a dear friend,
Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,
To feed my means.

Answer 16

Bassanio to Portia

Question 17

if he had
The present money to discharge the Jew,
He would not take it.

Answer 17

Salarino to Bassanio

Question 18

But none can drive him from the envious plea
Of forfeiture, if justice and his bond.

Answer 18

Salarino to Bassanio

Question 19

That he would rather have Antonio’s flesh
Then twenty times the value of the sum
That he did owe him:

Answer 19

Jessica to Bassanio

Question 20

The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
The best condition’d and unwearied spirit

Answer 20

Bassanio to Portia

Question 21

Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;
Double six thousand, and then treble that,

Answer 21

Portia to Bassanio

Question 21

You shall have gold
To pay the petty debt twenty times over:

Answer 21

Portia to Bassanio (generous)

Question 21

since I am a dog, beware my fangs:

Answer 21

Shylock to Antonio

Question 22

I’ll follow him no more with bootlegs prayers.
He seeks my life; his reason well I know:
I oft deliver’d from his forfeiters
Many that have at times have made moan to me;
Therefore he hates me.

Answer 22

Antonio to Salarino and Salanio

Question 23

The duke cannot deny the course of law:

Answer 23

Antonio to Salarino and Salanio

Question 24

true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,

Answer 24

Lorenzo to Portia

Question 25

There is a monastery two miles off;
And there will we abide.

Answer 25

Portia to Lorenzo

Question 26

we’ll see our husbands
Before they think of us.

Answer 26

Portia to Nerissa

Question 26

Doctor Bellario;
And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them,

Answer 26

Portia to Balthasar

Question 26

a habit,
That they shall think that we are accomplished
With what we lack. I’ll hold thee to any wager,

Answer 26

Portia to Nerissa

Question 27

And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice,

Answer 27

Portia to Nerissa