"Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"In the twinkling of an eye."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.

"All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

"Must I hold a candle to my shames?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

"All that glisters is not gold."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.

"Young in limbs, in judgment old."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.

"Even in the force and road of casualty."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

"If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"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. Sc. 1.

"Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, Reply."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.

"Let it serve for table-talk."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.

"A harmless necessary cat."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I never knew so young a body with so old a head."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"Is it so nominated in the bond?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"'T is not in the bond."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"Speak me fair in death."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"An upright judge, a learned judge!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"He is well paid that is well satisfied."

The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

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

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"This night methinks is but the daylight sick."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"These blessed candles of the night."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"We will answer all things faithfully."

The Merchant of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Fortune reigns in gifts of the world."

As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

"The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show."

As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Well said: that was laid on with a trowel."

As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Your heart's desires be with you!"

As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.