Wealth and greed

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“In Belmont is a lady richly left; / And she is fair, and, fairer than that word”

Bassanio

Act 1 Scene 1

“Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.”

Shylock

Act 1 Scene 3

“Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew’s man”

Lancelet

Act 2 Scene 2

“I will make fast the doors, and gild myself / With some more ducats”

Jessica

Act 2 Scene 6

“My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! /Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! / Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter! / A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats, / Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!/ And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,/ Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl; / She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.”

Salarino

Act 2 Scene 8

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

Salarino

Act 2 Scene 8

“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear; would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.”

Shylock

Act 3 Scene 1

“Why, yet it lives there uncheck’d that Antonio hath

/ a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;

/ the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very / dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many / a tall ship lie buried”

Salarino

Act 3 Scene 1

“All the wealth I had / Ran in my veins”

Bassanio

Act 3 Scene 2

“[reading] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since in paying it, it is impossible I should live”

Bassanio

Act 3 Scene 2

“What, no more? / Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond; / Double six thousand, and then treble that”

Portia

Act 3 Scene 2

“The present money to discharge the Jew, / He would not take it. Never did I know / A creature, that did bear the shape of man, / So keen and greedy to confound a man”

Salarino

Act 3 Scene 2

“Wilt thou show / the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee understand a plain man in his plain meaning”

Lorenzo

Act 3 Scene 5

“Fortune shows herself more kind [...] To let the wretched man outlive his wealth”

Antonio

Act 4 Scene 1

“Beg