MOV-top 3 Key Quotes Flashcards
“Hath not a Jew eyes?”
Shylock the trial scene
“Thou call’dst me a dog before thou hadst a cause; / but since I am a dog beware my fangs”
Shylock- Antonio trying to get Shylock to listen to him
“An oath! I have an oath in heaven;/ shall I lay perjury upon my soul?”
Shylock- Shylock preparing to leave for bassanios dinner party talking to lancelot
“Away then, I am locked in one of them./ if you love me, you will find me out.”
Portia- bassanio insists on making his choice (picking a casket) to marry portia
“O love, be moderate, allay ecstasy”
Portia-bassanio chooses the right casket
“A Daniel come to judgment! Yea, a Daniel! / o wise young judge, how I do honour thee”
Shylock-talking about portia dressed as a judge
“In sooth I know not why I am so sad”
Antonio act 1 scene 1
“You call me misbeliever! Cut-throat dog, / and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine”
Shylock- about Antonio calling him names
“The good Antonio, the honest Antonio”
Solanio- about Antonio during the trial scene
“ he of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady”
Nerissa- about bassanio to Portia before the choosing of the casket
“Let me choose for as is ma, I live upon the rack”
Bassanio- talking about the caskets
“But when this ring / parts from this finger, then parts of life from hence”
Bassanio- about the ring portia gave to him
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all venice”
Bassanio
“Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their deaths have good inspirations”
Nerissa- talking to portia
“Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of Venice “
Bassanio talking to gratiano agrees for him to be a new servant
“Alack, war heinous sin is it in me / to be ashamed to be my fathers child”
Jessica - explains how she feels guilty for not wanting to be seen/known as her fathers daughter
“For she is wise. If i can judge of her/ and fair she is, if that mine eyes be true/ and true she is as she has proved herself”
Lorenzo - praising Jessica to his friends
“ my daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!”
Solanio - quoting/ mocking Shylock
“ o these deliberate fools! When they do choose / they have the wisdom by their wit to love”
Portia - talking about her dislike of the suitors
“How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?”
The duke asking Shylock questions
“That thou shalt see the difference of our spirit/ i pardon thee thy life before thou ask it”
Duke before deciding Shylock punishment (trial scene)
“The boy was the very staff of my age, my very prop”
Gobbo talking about Lorenzo
“A kinder gentleman treads not the earth”
Salerio talking about antonio
“How every fool can play upon the word.”
Lorenzo - is weary of launcelots clowning
