Key quotations — The Merchant of Venice — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The Merchant of Venice, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'In sooth, I know not why I am so sad', 'I hate him for he is a Christian', 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose', 'All that glisters is not gold', 'My daughter! O my ducats!', 'Hath not a Jew eyes?', 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd', 'Tarry a little; there is something else', 'I am content' and 'How far that little candle throws his beams!'.