Merchant Of Venice: Important Quotes Flashcards
Race/Religion 1-4
“.. if he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.”~Portia
“I hate him for he is a Christian”~Shylock
“You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog..”~Shylock
“I am as like to call thee so again, to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.”~Antonio
Wealth 1-4
“I have disabled mine estate”~Bassanio
“In Belmont is a lady richly left”~Bassanio
“O my Antonio, had I but the meansI To hold a rival place with one of them..”~ Bassanio
“Try what my credit can in Venice do”~Antonio
Friendship 1-5
“To you, Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love”~Bassanio
“My purse, my person, my extremest means, Lie all unlock’d to your occasions.”~Antonio
“You shall not seal to such a bond for me”~ Bassanio
“..If I might but see you at my death”~Antonio
“..Life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem’d above thy life”~Bassanio
Revenge 1-2
“If I can catch him once upon the hip”~Shylock
“..let the forfeitI Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh…”~Shylock
Justice 1-2
“This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood”~Portia
“The law hath yet another hold on you.”~Portia
Danger 1-4
“I’ll seal to such a bond..”~Antonio
“I like not fair terms in a villain’s mind”~Bassanio
“Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?”~Bassanio
“You must prepare your bosom for his knife.”~Portia
Love (Lorenzo + Jessica) 1
“Beshrew me but I love her heartily.”~Lorenzo
Father-Daughter love 1-2
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!”~Shylock
“..and if my fortune be not cross’d, I have a father, you a daughter, lost.”~Jessica
