Quotes on Merchant Of Venice

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

All that glitters is not gold.

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?