Quotes About Shylock In 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. 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

#3. Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. 9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life?
I know. Will eat some cheese.

Helen Fielding

#5. The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

Michael Caine

#7. Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bobby Fischer

#8. How long have you been with Raphael?" "You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman." "What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed." -Venom and Elena

Nalini Singh

#9. And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

John Sexton

#10. We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

Philippa Gregory

#11. The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Tom Burke

#12. I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Edward St. Aubyn

#13. I'm going to stick by you, for better or for worse."

"It will most likely be worse, you know."

"Yeah, I figured.

E.J. Fisch

#14. 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

#15. Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

Paul C. Nagel