This download includes six posters featuring key quotes from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
There’s also a worksheet (in PDF and Word doc formats) with these quotes on for students to make notes on as you read through the play.
Merchant of Venice quotes
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you. But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn. And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself – Antonio, Act I, Scene I
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one – Antonio, Act I, Scene I
If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums as are Express’d in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me – Shylock, Act I, Scene III
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit – Jessica, Act II, Scene VI
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. Had you been as wise as bold, Young in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been inscroll’d: Fare you well. Your suit is cold. Cold, indeed; and labor lost: Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost! Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart To take a tedious leave: thus losers part – Morocco, Act II, Scene VII
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? – Shylock, Act III, Scene I
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