Quotes About A Pound Of Flesh

#1. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

#2. Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Joshua Slocum

#3. Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

Niall Ferguson

#4. His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

Ann Wroe

#5. You make me want to be a better than I am today.

Truth Devour

#6. We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

Ellen Goodman

#7. Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

Antonio Banderas

#8. I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor ... since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

Dave McClure

#9. Revenge seeks its pound of flesh. That's one fifth of my erection.

Jarod Kintz

#10. If you stay on this path as long as I have, you'll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil's waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

Jay Grewal

#11. Where the veil broke, you could see silvery clouds on which tall angels might stand. Not cute little Christmas angels, but high, stern angels in white robes, whose faces were sad and serious from being near God all day and hearing His decisions about the world.

Cynthia Voigt

#12. I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

Tony Blair

#13. Believe in your dreams and never give up. Although others may, you must never stop believing...

C.J. Hunter

#14. The pound of flesh which I demand of him
Is dearly bought; 'tis mine, and I will have it.

William Shakespeare

#15. The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

Jennifer Donnelly

#16. There's something majestic about a 30-pound Chinook salmon roasted and served whole - people get excited when you present it with the head and tail on. It has beautifully browned skin and extraordinary bright red flesh when you cut into it.

Tom Douglas

#17. Her blood-curdling snoring, with its gargling and squawking and its terrifying pauses is like the sound the devil might make if he were alternately relishing and strangling on a pound of human flesh.

Bailey White

#18. I would be very, very strong on the debt limit. And I would be asking for a very big pound of flesh if I were the Republicans. And the problem with the Republicans, they have two sides. The smaller side is very strong and the other side is always agreeing and, you know, you can't do that.

Donald Trump

#19. It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Mark Twain

#20. I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum Jr.

#21. Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

Lilian Jackson Braun

#22. Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

A. Petrov

#23. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet