Merchant of Venice Quotes

Question 1

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
(Antonio, Act 1 Scene 1)

Question 2

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
(Portia, Act 1 Scene 2)

Question 3

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. What news on the Rialto?
(Shylock, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 4

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 usance here with us in Venice.
(Shylock, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 5

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
(Antonio, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 5

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
(Antonio, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 6

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
(Bassanio, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 7

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
(Bassanio, Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 8

Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.
(Morocco, Act 2 Scene 1)

Question 9

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
(Lancelet, Act 2 Scene 2)

Question 10

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
(Jessica, Act 2 Scene 6)

Question 11

All that glisters is not gold.
(Morocco, Act 2 Scene 7)

Question 12

Young in limbs, in judgement old.
(Morocco, Act 2 Scene 7)

Question 13

The portrait of a blinking idiot.
(Aragon, Act 2 Scene 9)

Question 14

Let him look to his bond.
(Shylock, Act 3 Scene 1)

Question 15

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?
(Shylock, Act 3 Scene 1)

Question 16

Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
(Singer, Act 3 Scene 2)

Question 17

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
(Duke, Act 4 Scene 1)

Question 18

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.
(Portia, Act 4 Scene 1)

Question 19

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
(Jessica, Act 5 Scene 1)

Question 20

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
(Lorenzo, Act 5 Scene 1)