For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is u...seful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor envy's snaky eye, finds harbour here, Nor flatterers' venomous insinuations,... Nor cunning humorists' puddled opinions, Nor courteous ruin of proffered usury, Nor time prattled away, cradle of ignorance, Nor causeless duty, nor comber of arrogance, Nor trifling title of vanity dazzleth us, Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me... About my moneys and my usances. Still have I borne it with a patient shrug (For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity... He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »