So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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 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 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.
