Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Merchant of Venice.
Race Quotes
Wealth Quotes
BASSANIO'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,How much I have disabled mine estateBy something showing a more swelling portThan my faint means would grant continuance.Nor do I now make moan to be abridg...
Friendship Quotes
ANTONIOWell, tell me now what lady is the sameTo whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,That you today promised to tell me of? (1.1.126-128)
Marriage Quotes
NERISSAYour father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations. Therefore the lottery, that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver and lead,...
Justice Quotes
SHYLOCKSignior Antonio, many a time and oftIn the Rialto you have rated meAbout my moneys and my usances.Still have I borne it with a patient shrug(For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe).You...
Love Quotes
SOLANIOWhy then you are in love.ANTONIOFie, fie! (1.1.47-48)
Isolation Quotes
ANTONIOIn sooth, I know not why I am so sad.It wearies me; you say it wearies you;But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,I am to learn;And such a w...
Choices Quotes
PORTIABut this reasoning is not in the fashion tochoose me a husband. O me, the word "choose"! I may neitherchoose who I would nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of aliving daughter curb'd by...