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“All that glisters is not gold;
William Shakespeare
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.” (The Merchant of Venice Quotes)
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“An evil soul producing holy witness
William Shakespeare
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.”
The Merchant of Venice
“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”
William Shakespeare
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“Do all men kill all the things they do not love?
William Shakespeare
Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.”
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“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan’s, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palentine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-capering. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what’s his reason? I am a Jew.”
William Shakespeare
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“His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
William Shakespeare
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“How many things by season seasoned are, to their right praise and true perfection!” (The Merchant of Venice Quotes)
William Shakespeare
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“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
William Shakespeare
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“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”
William Shakespeare
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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“Look on beauty,
William Shakespeare
And you shall see ’tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it:
So are those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed fairness, often known
To be the dowry of a second head,
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.”
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“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
William Shakespeare
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.”
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“So may the outward shows be least themselves:
William Shakespeare
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
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“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
William Shakespeare
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 sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents,
Where Cressid lay that night.”
The Merchant of Venice
“The quality of mercy is not strained.
William Shakespeare
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings,
But mercy is above this sceptered sway.
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute to God himself.
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.
Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this-
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea,
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence ‘gainst the merchant there.”
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“Thou called me a dog before thou had a cause,
William Shakespeare
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
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“When he is best he is a little worst than a man, and when he is worst he is a little better than a beast.”
William Shakespeare
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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
