The Merchant of Venice

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: I have much ado to know myself.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 1, l. 7.

QUOTATION: Who can converse with a dumb show?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, l. 73.

QUOTATION: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 3, l. 102.

QUOTATION: Here choose I. Joy be the consequence!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Bassanio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2, l. 107.

QUOTATION: Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lorenzo, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 4, l. 41.

QUOTATION: A harmless necessary cat.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 55.

QUOTATION: How like a fawning publican he looks!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 3, l. 41.

QUOTATION: I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 5, sc. 1, l. 238.

QUOTATION: Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Prince of Morocco, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 7, l. 60.

QUOTATION: Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 9, l. 79.

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