Let none presume to wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices, were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor were purchased by the merit of the wearer.
Let no such man be trusted.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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?
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages, princes’ palaces.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends, for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? But lend it rather to thine enemy, Who if he break thou mayst with better face Exact the penalty.
I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
I dote on his very absence.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
