Shylock's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. 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

#5. Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

William Shakespeare

#6. 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

#7. We cannot reform the world ... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

John F. Kennedy

#8. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

William Shakespeare

#9. 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

#10. If you don't remove your hands immediately, I will render you unable to biologically maintain life.

Kaede Kouchi

#11. The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Brian Tracy

#12. 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

#13. Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

William Shakespeare

#14. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#16. 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

#17. hierarchies are lies. Because no one needs the alpha. He gets to the top by puffing and bluffing until we all believe he belongs there. When your power is built on ignorance, you don't want people talking to each other.

Isaac Marion

#18. 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

#19. I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

Kurt Cobain

#20. No god craves weaklings.

Daniel Woodrell

#21. Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

Suki Kim

#22. Caring for others means thinking about others.

Divya Chawla

#23. Sometimes the person wouldn't be in the photo at all. I asked what they would post instead. "A lot of Japanese use their cats," she said. "They're not in the photo with the cat?" I asked. "Nope. Just the cat. Or their rice cooker.

Aziz Ansari

#24. 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

#25. If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

William H Gass

#26. parsley. Vegetables these days are chopped into tiny grass.

Adam Gopnik

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?

Steven Cuoco