The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Key Quotations
Act One Scene One
1) Antonio- In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
2) Salerio- Your mind is tossing on the ocean
3) Antonio- I hold the world but as the world, Grationo; a stage where every man must play his part and mine a sad one.
4) Bassanio- Grationo speaks an infinite deal of nothing.
5) Antonio- My purse, my person, my extremist means, lie all unlocked to your occasions.
Scene Two
1) Portia- The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper o’er a cold decree.
Scene Three
1) Shylock- How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian.
2) Shylock- I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
3) Antonio- The devil can site scripture for his purpose.
4) Shylock- You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spat upon my Jewish gabardine.
Act Two Scene Two
1) Launcelot- Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation.
2) Launcelot- It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Scene Three
1) Jessica- Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil.
Scene Five
1) Shylock- For I did dream of money-bags tonight.
2) Shylock- Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house.
3) Jessica- I have a father, you a daughter, lost.
Scene Six
1) Jessica- But love is blind and lovers cannot see.

Scene Seven
1) Morocco- Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.
2) Morocco- Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.
3) Morocco- Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.
4) Morocco- All that glisters is not gold after love you heard that told.
Scene Eight
5) Salerio- A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
6) Salanio- I think he only loves the world for him.
Scene Nine
1) Arragon- What’s here? The portrait of a blinking idiot
Act Three Scene One
1) Shylock- To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
2) Shylock- I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear.
Scene two
1) Portia- One half of me is yours, the other half yours.
2) Bassanio- Let me choose for as I am, I live upon the rack.
3) Bassanio- The world is still deceived with ornament.
4) Bassanio- Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence; And here choose I; joy be the consequence.
5) Scroll-
6) Grationo - The nearest friend to me the kindest man.
Act Four Scene one
1) Duke- A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch.
2) Bassanio- Do all men kill the things they do not love.
3) Shylock- The pound of which I demand of him is dearly bought, tis mine and I will have it.
4) Antonio- The weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground.
5) Grationo- O, be thou dammed, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused.
6) Portia- The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppett as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
7) Bassanio- To do a great right, do a little wrong.
8) Portia- The court awards it and the law doth give it.
9) Grationo – Now infidel, I have you on the hip.
10) Portia- Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.
Act five Scene one
1) Portia- So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Key Scenes
Act 1 Scene 1- Exposition of Bassanio’s problem which leads to the key events of the play.
Act 1 Scene 2- The conditions under which Portia must wed
Act 1 Scene 3- Shylock’s first appearance and the signing of the bond
Act 2 Scene 6- Jessica’s act of betrayal for love of Lorenzo. Act 3 Scene 1- Shylock’s famous speech on equality and prejudice. Act 3 Scene 2- Bassanio chooses. (The casket) Act 4 Scene 1- The “trial” scene and the appearance vs. Reality Act 5 Scene 1- The villain is defeated and harmony is restored in the true spirit of romantic comedy.