Act 1, Scene 1
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...
Act 1, Scene 2
Act 1, Scene 3
SHYLOCK [aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian,But more for that in low simplicityHe lends out money gratis and brings downThe rate of usance here...
Act 2, Scene 1
PRINCE OF MOROCCOMislike me not for my complexion,The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,To whom I am a neighbor, and near bred.Bring me the fairest creature northward born,Where Phoebus' fire sc...
Act 2, Scene 2
LANCELETNay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me. It is a wise father that knows his own child. (2.2.73-75)
Act 2, Scene 3
JESSICAAlack, what heinous sin is it in meTo be ashamed to be my father's child?But though I am a daughter to his blood,I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,If thou keep promise, I shall end this str...
Act 2, Scene 4
LORENZOI must needs tell thee all. She hath directedHow I shall take her from her father's house,What gold and jewels she is furnished with,What page's suit she hath in readiness. (2.4.33-36)
Act 2, Scene 5
SHYLOCKWhat, Jessica!—Thou shalt not gormandizeAs thou hast done with me—what, Jessica!—
And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out.—
Why, Jessica, I say! (2.5.3-6)
Act 2, Scene 6
LORENZOBeshrew me but I love her heartily,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 hath proved herself.And therefore, like herself,...
Act 2, Scene 7
PRINCE OF MOROCCOOne of these three contains her heavenly picture.Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnationTo think so base a thought; it were too grossTo rib her cerecloth in the obscure...
Act 2, Scene 8
SOLANIO"My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter," (2.8.15-17)
Act 2, Scene 9
NERISSAThe ancient saying is no heresy:Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. (2.9.88-89)
Act 3, Scene 1
SHYLOCKHe hath disgraced me, andhindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies—
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Act 3, Scene 2
PORTIAWhat, no more?Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond.Double six thousand, and then treble that,Before a friend of this description[...]For never shall you lie by Portia's sideWith an unqui...
Act 3, Scene 3
SHYLOCKI'll have my bond. Speak not against my bond.I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. (3.3.5-6)
Act 3, Scene 4
PORTIAI never did repent for doing good,Nor shall not now; for in companionsThat do converse and waste the time together,Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,There must be needs a like proport...
Act 3, Scene 5
JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Lancelet and I are out. He tells me flatly there is no mercy forme in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says, you are no good membe...
Act 4, Scene 1
DUKE OF VENICEMake room, and let him stand before our face.—
Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,That thou but leadest this fashion of thy maliceTo the last hour of act, and then, 'tis...
Act 5, Scene 1
LORENZOThe moon shines bright. In such a night as this,When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees,And they did make no noise- in such a night,Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls,And sigh'd...