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William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He has become the most famous and influential author in English literature. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worldโs pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englandโs national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. Shakespeareโs writing developed and evolved throughout his career. Scholars often divide his work into periods based on different aspects of his writing style.
He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in โperfect healthโ. In his will, Shakespeare left the bulk of his large estate to his elder daughter Susanna. Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death. He retired from writing in 1613 and died three years later at the age of fifty-two. Most of his works were published posthumously in 1623. Shakespeareโs plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
Quotes From The Merchant Of Venice
โThe Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [4]
โHow all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embracโd despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyโd jealousy.โ
The Merchant of Venice, III, ii, 108
โHow like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a Christian.โ
The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 42
โMy ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, i, 42
โThe villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.โ
โLook, how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 58
โThus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.โ
The Merchant of Venice, III, v, 17
โO father Abram! what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect the thoughts of others.โ
The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 161
โThou callโdst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs.โ
The Merchant of Venice, III, iii, 6
โThe seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.โ
โNature hath framโd strange fellows in her time.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, i, 51
โWho riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, vi, 8
โI am Sir Oracle,
And when I open my lips let no dog bark!โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 93
โSome there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadowโs bliss.โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, ix, 66
โI like not fair terms and a villainโs mind.โ
โO heavens! this is my true-begotten father.โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, ii, 36
โWhen he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, ii, 93
โI never knew so young a body with so old a head.โ
The Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 163
โHow many things by season seasonโd are To their right praise and true perfection!โ
The Merchant of Venice, V, i, 107
โThe brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps oโer a cold decree.โ
โHow much more elder art thou than thy looks!โ
The Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 251
โMadam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,โ
The Merchant of Venice: By William Shakespear (ed. 1750)
โHow far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90
โFish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, i, 101
โSuperfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.โ
โGod made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, ii, 59
โWhatโs here? the portrait of a blinking idiot
Presenting me a schedule!โ
The Merchant of Venice (1605)
โI am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 114
โIn sooth I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
โSo may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.โ
โSome men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat.โ
The Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 47
โWrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]
โAll that glisters is not goldโ
Often have you heard that told.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596)
โIโll seal to such a bond,
And say there is much kindness in the Jew.โ
The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 153
โI will not jump with common spirits and rank me with the barbarous multitude.โ
โI do know of these,
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing.โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, i, 95
โHere are a few of the unpleasantโst words
That ever blotted paper.โ
The Merchant of Venice, III, ii, 252
โI would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.โ
The Merchant of Venice, III, i, 130
โA Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.โ
The Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 341
โThey are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.โ
โIn Belmont is a lady richly left,
And she is fair, and fairer than the word,
Of wondrous virtues.โ
The Merchant of Venice (1596โ8) act 1, sc. 1, l. [162]
โIt is a wise father that knows his own child.โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, ii, 83
โWhat! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?โ
The Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 69
โBut love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, vi, 36
โThere is no vice so simple, but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.โ
โAnd the vile squealing of the wry-neckโd fife.โ
The Merchant of Venice, II, v, 30
โThis night methinks is but the daylight sick.โ
The Merchant of Venice, V, i, 124
โShall I bend low, and in a bondmanโs key,
With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,
Say this.โ
The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 124
โWhy should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?โ
The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597], I, i, 83
โYou have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care.โ
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