The Threepenny Opera Quotes

And the child-bride in her nightieWhose assailant's still at largeViolated in her slumbers—Mackie, how much did you charge? (P.39-42)

See the sharks with teeth like razors.All can read his open face.And Macheath has got a knife, butNot in such an obvious place. (P.5-8)

PEACHUM. Licenses are delivered to professionals only. Points in a businesslike way to a map of the city. London is divided into fourteen districts. Any man who intends to practice the craft of beg...

See the shark, how red his fins areAs he slashes at his prey.Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves whichGive the minimum away. (P.9-12)

PEACHUM. For the villainy of the world is great, and a man needs to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen from under him. (1.3.215-217)

And Schmul Meier, reported missingLike so many wealthy men:Mac the Knife acquired his cash box.God alone knows how or when. (P.21-24)

Fair in Soho.The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. (P.2-4)

And they'll see me as I leave the door next And they'll say: don't tell us she's the one. And that ship with eight sails and All its fifty guns loaded Will run up its flag. (1.2.342-346)