quotes- merchant of venice

Question 1

my ventures are not in one bottom trusted nor to one place; nor is my hwole estate upon the frtune of this present year

Answer 1

antonio about him not worrying about money

Question 2

when i had lost one shaft, i shot his fellow of the self same flight

Answer 2

bassanio

only way to pay antonio is to get more money

Question 3

and many jasons come in quest of her. o my antonio, had i but the means to hold a rival place with one of them

Answer 3

I-bassanio
her- portia
FL- mythological alllusion

Question 4

your father was very virtuous; and holy men, at their dead, have good inspirations

Answer 4

nerissa to portia

Question 5

i am much afeard my lad y this mother played false with a smith

Answer 5

portia to nerissa about italian

Question 6

very viley in the morning, when he is sober’ most viley in the afternoon, wneh nhe is drunk

Answer 6

portia about german

Question 7

i will buy with you, sell with you, talk twith you, and so folowing’ but i will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you

Answer 7

shylock to bassanio and antonio

Question 8

he lends out moeny gratis and brings down the rate usance her with us in venice

Answer 8

shylock about antonio

gratis= free of interest

Question 9

if i can catch him once on the hip, iwill feed fat the ancient grudge i bear him

Answer 9

shylock about antonio

Question 10

fair sir, you spit on me on wednesday last’ you spurn’d me such a day’ another time you calll’d me a dog’ and for the courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys?

Answer 10

shylock to antonio

Question 11

you shall not seal to such a bond for me

Answer 11

bassanio to antonio

Question 12

a kinder gentlmena treads not the earth

Answer 12

salarino about antonio

hyperbole

Question 13

our house is hell; and thou a merry devil, didst rob it of some taste of tediousness

Answer 13

Our- jessica/ shyllock

thou- launcelot

Question 14

pray thee, take pain to allay with some cold drops of modesty thy skipping spirit

Answer 14

bassanio

thee- gratiano

Question 15

i will not jump with common spirits, and rank me with the barbarous multitutde

Answer 15

prince of arragon

Question 16

to prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine

Answer 16

prince of Morocco

Question 17

budge, says the fiend. budge not, says my conscience

Answer 17

launcelot

leaving shylock for bassanio

Question 18

why ‘t is an office of discovery, love’ and i should be obscured

Answer 18

Jessica to lorenzo

Question 19

let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my house

Answer 19

shylock to jessica

Question 20

if it be preferment to leave a rich jew’s service, to become the follower of so poor a gentleman

Answer 20

bassanio to launcelot / old gobbo

Question 21

a carrion death, within whose empty eye there is written scroll

Answer 21

gold casket

Question 22

i should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself. certainly the jew is the very devil incarnal

Answer 22

launcelot

Question 23

do as i bid you; shut the doors after you : fast bind, fast find

Answer 23

shylock to jessica

Question 24

all things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d 3 EXAMPLES

Answer 24

gratiano
being hungry/ getting up from feast
horse retracing footsteps with same energy as orgininally walking them
ship sailing out of harbor/ returning weather beaten

Question 25

all that glisters is not gold

Answer 25

inscription on scroll in gold casket

Question 26

what many men desire ! that many may be meant by the foul multitutde

Answer 26

prince of arragon in regards to the gold casket

Question 27

my daughter! o my ducats! o my daughter! fled with a Christian

Answer 27

shylock

Question 28

i will not jump with common spirits, and rank me with the barbarous multitudes

Answer 28

prince of arragon towards gold

Question 29

did i deserve no more than a fool's head? is that my prize? are my deserts no better?

Answer 29

prince of arragon

Question 30

for never shall you lie by portia's side/ with an unquiet soul

Answer 30

portia to bassanio

Question 31

but since i am a dog, beware my fangs

Answer 31

shylock

Question 32

therefore, thou gaudy gold, hardy food for midas, i will none of thee

Answer 32

bassanio | mythological/ allusion/ apostrophe/ metaphor/ alliteration/ dramatic irony

Question 33

ill prove the prettier fellow of the two

Answer 33

portia

Question 34

when i told you my state was nothing, i should then have told you/ that i was worse than nothing

Answer 34

bassanio to portia

Question 35

if you pric us, do we not bleed

Answer 35

jews- shylock

Question 36

would she were hearsed at my feed, and the ducats in her coffin

Answer 36

shylock about jessica

Question 37

i have toward heaven breathed a secret vow/ to livein prayer and contemplation

Answer 37

portia

Question 38

i oft have delivered from his forfeitures/ many that have at times made moan to me...

Answer 38

antonio about shylock

Question 39

one inwhom/ the ancient roman honour more appears/ than any that draws breath in italy

Answer 39

one- antonio | hyperbole

Question 40

I...am arm'd/ to suffer, with a quietness of spirit

Answer 40

antonio

Question 41

the jew shall have my felsh, bones, and all/ ere thou shalt lose fro me on drop of blood.

Answer 41

bassanio to antonio

Question 42

the bond doth give thee here, no jot of _____

Answer 42

blood portia thee- shylcok

Question 43

and, for your love, ill take this ring from you

Answer 43

portia to bassanio

Question 44

i beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a revered estimation

Answer 44

portia/ balthasar | antonio to bassanio about portia

Question 45

blesses him that gives and him that takes

Answer 45

mercy

Question 46

the throned monarch better than his crown

Answer 46

mercy

Question 47

a daniel come to judgment " | who says it first/ then rearranges

Answer 47

shylock/ gratiano

Question 48

would any of the stock of barabbas/ had been her husband rather than a Christian

Answer 48

shylock | her- jessica

Question 49

i am the unhappy subject of these quarrels

Answer 49

antonio

Question 50

fair ladies, you do drop manna in the way of starved people

Answer 50

lorenzo manna- shylock's inheritance metahpor

Question 51

ill not deny him anything I have/ no, not my body nor my husband's bed

Answer 51

portia | him- doctor

Question 52

would he were gelt taht had it, for my part, / since you do take it, love, so much at heart

Answer 52

gratiano to nerissa gelt- castrated it -ring

Question 53

i would out night you, did no body come

Answer 53

jessica to lorenzo

Question 54

what comment is made about men and music

Answer 54

they can not be trusted if they do not like music

Question 55

by heave, i will never come in your bed/ until i see the ring

Answer 55

portia to bassanio

Question 56

ill die for't but some woman had the ring

Answer 56

portia