"Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued...
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth" - Bassanio (Act I, Scene I)
"I hate him for he is a Christian...
He lends out money gratis and brings down the rate of usance...
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation."
- Shylock (Act I, Scene III)
"I pray you, good Bassanio...
Within the eye of honour, be assur'd
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions."
- Antonio (Act I, Scene I)
"If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends...
But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Who if he break thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty."
- Antonio (Act I, Scene III)
"If you deny it, let danger light
Upon your charter and your city's freedom... More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
I bear Antonio."
- Shylock (Act IV, Scene I)
"If your miseries were in
the same abundance as your good fortunes are...
they are sick that surfeit with too much as they stave with nothing"
- Nerissa (Act I, Scene II)
"Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;
Double six thousand, and then treble that,
Before a friend of this description"
- Portia (Act III, Scene II)