Portia Quotes

“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree.”

“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.”

“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. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

“It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.”