The Merchant Of Venice: Essential Quotes

Question 1

1. Antonio

Answer 1

In sooth, i know not why i am so sad.

Question 2

2. Bassanio

Answer 2

To you antonio / i owe the most in money and in love

Question 3

3. Shylock

Answer 3

You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dof, and spit upon my jewish garbedine

Question 4

4. Morocco

Answer 4

All that glisters is not gold

Question 5

5. Shylock

Answer 5

Hath not a jew eyes? Hath not a jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

Question 6

6. Portia

Answer 6

I give them with this ring, which when you part from, lose or give away, let is presage the ruin of your love

Question 7

7. Shylock

Answer 7

Ill have my bond. Speak not against my bond; i have sworn on oath that i will have my bond

Question 8

8. Portia

Answer 8

The quality of mercy is not strained: it droppeth as the gentre rain from heaven upon the place beneath.

Question 9

9. Bassanio

Answer 9

To do a great right, do a little wrong

Question 10

10. Lorenzo

Answer 10

In such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Trogan walls and sighed his soul toward the Greccian tents, where Cressida lay that night