The Merchant of Venice

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Prejudice

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Character

Act/Scene

“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.”

Portia

Act 1 Scene 2

“If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.”

Portia

Act 1 Scene 2

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

Antonio

Act 1 Scene 3

“How like a fawning publican he looks! / I hate him for he is a Christian.”

Shylock

Act 1 Scene 3

“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.”

Shylock

Act 1 Scene 3

“I am as like to call thee so again, To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.”

Antonio

Act 1 Scene 3

“Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.”

Prince of Morocco

Act 2 Scene 1

“All that glisters is not gold.”

Prince of Morocco

Act 2 Scene 7

“Why, all the boys in Venice follow him, Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.”

Salerio

Act 2 Scene 8

“But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel.”

Gratiano

Act 3 Scene 2

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