Top 27 Quotes About Merchant Of Venice

#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. Well, most of us think the "Merchant of Venice" is a porno script. On a more personal note, I've decided on pizza for dinner.

Jaye Frances

#3. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?

William Shakespeare

#4. Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold!

William Shakespeare

#5. Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Clara Schumann

#6. A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

Abraham Foxman

#8. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

#9. Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

William Shakespeare

#10. I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

Sinead O'Connor

#11. These blessed candles of the night.

William Shakespeare

#12. After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.

Felicity Kendal

#13. I am a wolf that my sister kept in a cage, until her hand was removed.

Mindy McGinnis

#14. By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

Ron Lewis

#15. Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness
that is, the improbable
with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

Emile M. Cioran

#16. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

#17. By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

William Shakespeare

#18. There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

Jesse Helms

#19. There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. Definition is the death of discovery.

Tom Shadyac

#21. I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

William Shakespeare

#22. Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

#23. Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car."
"Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing.
"Right, right, even though she was a man.

Banana Yoshimoto

#24. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

Bertrand Russell

#25. As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

John Irving

#26. It is surely significant, for instance, that Romeo and Juliet was written at around the same time as The Merchant of Venice, a play that is preoccupied with the whole question of freedom of choice and its consequences.4

William Shakespeare

#27. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

William Shakespeare

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