Top 27 Venice Merchant Quotes

#1. It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Venice Merchant Quotes #61782
#2. The nights are his, but in the daytime you will hound him and hound him until he takes fright and flees or until you drag him, staked and screaming, into the sunlight!

Stephen King

Venice Merchant Quotes #62787
#3. 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

Venice Merchant Quotes #112479
#4. 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

Venice Merchant Quotes #121108
#5. 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

Venice Merchant Quotes #137284
#6. Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold!

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #192334
#7. I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

Matthew Morrison

Venice Merchant Quotes #250500
#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

Venice Merchant Quotes #504741
#9. Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #519888
#10. These blessed candles of the night.

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #610666
#11. 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

Venice Merchant Quotes #672034
#12. While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Billy Collins

Venice Merchant Quotes #701335
#13. Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

Andrzej Wajda

Venice Merchant Quotes #749849
#14. She was such a beautiful and sweet creature ... and so full of tricks.

Queen Victoria

Venice Merchant Quotes #961199
#15. The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless depths forcing me down, forcing the air from my lungs, squeezing the blood from my heart.

Rick Yancey

Venice Merchant Quotes #1014710
#16. If the family you came from sucked, make up a new one. Look at all the people there are to choose from. If the family you are in hurts, get on the bus. Like now.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Venice Merchant Quotes #1049303
#17. '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

Venice Merchant Quotes #1094160
#18. It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman

Venice Merchant Quotes #1132357
#19. By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #1322116
#20. 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

Venice Merchant Quotes #1335709
#21. War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Jane Goodall

Venice Merchant Quotes #1426844
#22. I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #1435535
#23. Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #1467475
#24. When my husband died in 2006, I didn't want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.

Mitzi Gaynor

Venice Merchant Quotes #1556041
#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

Venice Merchant Quotes #1659302
#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

Venice Merchant Quotes #1685674
#27. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

William Shakespeare

Venice Merchant Quotes #1744518

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