Top 25 Quotes About Shylock
#1. There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.
Elmore Leonard
#2. 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
#3. The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?
Alison Owen
#4. Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person.
Christopher Moore
#5. We cannot reform the world ... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
John F. Kennedy
#6. 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
#7. I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
Dustin Hoffman
#8. In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
#9. Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love?
Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.
William Shakespeare
#10. Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#11. SHYLOCK
You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter's flight.
SALARINO
That's certain; I for my part knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal.
William Shakespeare
#12. It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.
Michael Hayden
#13. Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
William Shakespeare
#14. Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Joseph Joubert
#15. Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
John Piper
#16. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
William Shakespeare
#19. The pound of flesh which I demand of him
Is dearly bought; 'tis mine, and I will have it.
William Shakespeare
#20. Another angel has snuck up on me. His wings are golden and his face chiseled, but he looks at me with the cold eyes of a killer. Before I can figure out what to do, snowy wings blot out the angel. It's Raffe. And he has two of his Watchers backing him up.
Susan Ee
#21. You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, Man, that's attractive - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.
Anthony Hamilton
#22. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell
#23. 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
#25. I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.
Tony Greig
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