O, ten times faster Venus’ pigeons fly
To seal love’s bonds new-made, than they are wont
To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
–Merchant of Venice,
Act II, scene vi
How like a fawning publican he looks!
–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene iii
His reasons are as two grains of wheat
hid in two bushels of chaff:
you shall seek all day ere you find them,
and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene i
What’s here? The portrait of a blinking idiot
Presenting me a schedule.
–Merchant of Venice,
Act II Scene ix
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene ii
The villany you teach me, I will execute,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
–The Merchant of Venice,
Act III, Scene i
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