Act 1 quotations Flashcards
“A fellow almost…” - Iago (about Cassio) (A1S1)
“A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife”
“I am not…” - Iago (A1S1)
“I am not what I am”
“…lips” - Iago (about Othello) (A1S1)
“Thick- lips”
“…plague him with flies” - Iago (A1S1)
“And though he in a fertile climate dwell, plague him with flies”
“Even now, now, very now…” - Iago (A1S1)
“Even now, now, very now an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
“The devil will make…” - Iago (A1S1)
“The devil will make a grandsire of you”
“…Barbary horse” - Iago (A1S1)
“You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse”
“Your daughter and the moor are now…” - Iago (A1S1)
“Your daughter and the moor are now making the beast with two backs”
“…Moor” - Roderigo (A1S1)
“Lascivious Moor”
“I love the…” - Othello (A1S2)
“I love the gentle Desdemona”
“Keep up your bright…” - Othello (A1S2)
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”
“…rather than your weapons” - Othello (A1S2)
“You shall more command with years rather than your weapons”
“O thou foul thief!…” - Brabantio (A1S2)
“O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter?”
“Damn’d as thou art…” - Brabantio (A1S2)
“Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her”
“The sooty bosom…” - Brabantio (A1S2)
“The sooty bosom of such a thing as thou”
“…abus’d her delicate youth with drugs of minerals” - Brabantio (A1S2)
“That thou hast practis’d on her with foul charms, abus’d her delicate youth with drugs of minerals”
“…Othello” - Duke (A1S3)
“Valiant Othello”
“She is abus’d, stol’n from me…” - Brabantio (A1S3)
“She is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines”
“…what she’d fear’d to look on?” - Brabantio (A1S3)
“To fall in love with what she’d fear’d to look on?”
“She lov’d me for the dangers…” - Othello (A1S3)
“She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d, and I lov’d her that she did pity them”
“A man he is of…” - Othello (A1S3)
“A man he is of honesty and trust”
“…more fair than black” - Duke (A1S3)
“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black”
“Look at her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see…” - Brabantio (A1S3)
“Look at her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see; she has deciev’d her father and may thee”
“Honest…” - Othello (A1S3)
“Honest Iago”
“…we are thus or thus” - Iago (A1S3)
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus”
“Put money…” - Iago (A1S3)
“Put money in thy purse”
“I hate the…” - Iago (A1S3)
“I hate the Moor”
“If thou canst cuckold him…” - Iago (A1S3)
“If thou canst cuckold him, thy dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport”
“…that thinks men honest that but seem to be so” - Iago (A1S3)
“The moor is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so”
“That will as tenderly be…” - Iago (A1S3)
“That will as tenderly be led by the noses as asses are”
