PORTIA in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - Portia in The Merchant of Venice
1  Enter Portia dressed like a doctor of laws.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
2  Enter Portia with her waiting-woman Nerissa.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
3  Enter the Prince of Arragon, his train, and Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  That is the voice, Or I am much deceiv'd, of Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  Enter Portia, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica and Balthazar.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  For never shall you lie by Portia's side With an unquiet soul.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  Enter Portia with the Prince of Morocco and both their trains.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  Enter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, Nerissa and all their trains.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  By your leave, I bid my very friends and countrymen, Sweet Portia, welcome.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
10  O sweet Portia, Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
11  The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now For princes to come view fair Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  Enter the Prince of Morocco, a tawny Moor all in white, and three or four followers accordingly, with Portia, Nerissa and their train.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
13  Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages: Her name is Portia, nothing undervalu'd To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
14  The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head Spets in the face of heaven, is no bar To stop the foreign spirits, but they come As o'er a brook to see fair Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
15  Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match, And on the wager lay two earthly women, And Portia one, there must be something else Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world Hath not her fellow.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
16  Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea; Neither have I money nor commodity To raise a present sum, therefore go forth Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be rack'd even to the uttermost, To furnish thee to Belmont to fair Portia.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
17  Sweet Portia, If you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know for whom I gave the ring, And would conceive for what I gave the ring, And how unwillingly I left the ring, When nought would be accepted but the ring, You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.