The Merchant of Venice

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: ‘Twere good you do so much for charity.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 261.

QUOTATION: I think he only loves the world for him.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Solanio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 8, l. 50.

QUOTATION: Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lorenzo, in The Merchant of Venice, act 5, sc. 1, l. 25.

QUOTATION: How every fool can play upon the word!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lorenzo, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 5, l. 43.

QUOTATION: Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 1, l. 51.

QUOTATION: He is well paid that is well satisfied.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 415.

QUOTATION: It is a wise father that knows his own child.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Launcelot, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 2, l. 72-3 (1600).

QUOTATION: What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 89.

QUOTATION: Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Bassanio, in The Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2, l. 175.

QUOTATION: Farewell, and if my fortune be not crossed,
I have a father, you a daughter, lost.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Jessica, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 5, l. 56-7.

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