Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: The Merchant of Venice

  • October 9

    Time Work

    How many things by season season’d are
    To their right praise and true perfection!

    -The Merchant of Venice,
    Act V, Scene i

  • September 13

    From the Heart

    I tell thee what… 
    I love thee, and it is my love that speaks.

    -The Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene i

  • July 8

    Laugh Lines

    With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

    –The Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene i

  • June 13

    Threat

    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 iii

  • May 23

    Advocate

    The quality of mercy is not strain’d
    It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
    Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
    It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

    –The Merchant of Venice,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • April 25

    Find the Middle

    They are as sick that surfeit with too much
    as they that starve with nothing.
    It is no mean happiness therefore,
    to be seated in the mean.

    –Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • March 28

    Walk Your Talk

    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.

    –Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene ii