Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Threepenny Opera.
Lust Quotes
And the child-bride in her nightieWhose assailant's still at largeViolated in her slumbers—Mackie, how much did you charge? (P.39-42)
Violence Quotes
See the sharks with teeth like razors.All can read his open face.And Macheath has got a knife, butNot in such an obvious place. (P.5-8)
Hypocrisy Quotes
PEACHUM. Licenses are delivered to professionals only. Points in a businesslike way to a map of the city. London is divided into fourteen districts. Any man who intends to practice the craft of beg...
Appearances Quotes
See the shark, how red his fins areAs he slashes at his prey.Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves whichGive the minimum away. (P.9-12)
Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes
PEACHUM. For the villainy of the world is great, and a man needs to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen from under him. (1.3.215-217)
Greed Quotes
And Schmul Meier, reported missingLike so many wealthy men:Mac the Knife acquired his cash box.God alone knows how or when. (P.21-24)
Criminality Quotes
Fair in Soho.The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. (P.2-4)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
And they'll see me as I leave the door next And they'll say: don't tell us she's the one. And that ship with eight sails and All its fifty guns loaded Will run up its flag. (1.2.342-346)