Act 1 Scene 1 quotes Flashcards
RODERIGO to Iago
“Tush, never tell me, I take it much unkindly
that thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.”
IAGO to Roderigo (first line of the play)
“‘Sblood, but you will not hear me.
If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“Three great ones of the city,
in personal suit to make me his lieutenant, off-capped to him and by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance horribly stuff’d with epithets of war;”
IAGO to Roderigo about Othello
“For ‘Certes,’ says he, ‘I have already chose my officer.’
And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician”
IAGO to Roderigo about Cassio
“One Michael Cassio, a Florentine -
“A fellow almost damned in a fair wife - that never set a squadron in the field”
IAGO to Roderigo about Cassio
“More than a spinster…
Mere prattle, without practice is all his soldiership.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“And I - of whom his eyes
had seen the proof at Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds Christian and heathen”
IAGO to Roderigo describing Cassio
“debitor and
creditor.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“And I - God bless the mark -
his Moorship’s ancient.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“I follow him
to serve my turn upon him.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“Others there are who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty…
do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul and such a one do I profess myself.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“In following him,
I follow but myself.”
IAGO to Roderigo
“not I for love and duty,
but seeming so for my peculiar end”
IAGO to Roderigo
“I am not
what I am.”
What racial slur does Roderigo call Othello?
“the thick-lips”
IAGO to Roderigo
“Call up her father,
rouse him, make after him, poison his delight, proclaim him in the streets, incense her kinsmen…Plague him with flies.”
IAGO to Roderigo about Brabantio
“Though that his joy be joy,
yet throw such changes of vexation on’t, as it may lost some colour.”
IAGO to Brabantio
“you’re robbed; for shame put on your gown;
your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul. Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”
IAGO to Brabantio
“Or else the devil
will make a grandsire of you.”
Calling Othello a devil
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“The worser the welcome.
I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors in honest plainness thou hast heard me say my daughter is not for thee.”
BRABANTIO to Rodergio and Iago hiding in the shadows, emphasising his power
“My spirit and my place have in them power
to make this bitter to thee.”
BRABANTIO
“What tell’st thou me of robbing?
This is Venice;”
IAGO to Brabantio
“Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians,
you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins, and jennets for germans.”
IAGO to Brabantio
“I am one sir, that comes to tell you
your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
BRABANTIO to Iago
“Thou art a
villain.”
RODERIGO to Brabantio
“your fair daughter…
to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor -“
RODERIGO to Brabantio
“Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
I say again, hath made a gross revolt, tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger”
BRABANTIO
“This accident is not unlike my dream,
belief of it oppresses me already. Light, I say, light!”
IAGO to Roderigo about Othello
“Though I do hate him as I do hell pains,
Yet for necessity of present life I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign.”
BRABANTIO
“It is too true
an evil. Gone she is, and what’s to come of my despised time is naught but bitterness.”
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“O, she deceives me
past thought.”
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“O heaven! How got she out?
O treason of the blood!”
BRABANTIO
“Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds
by what you see them act.”
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“Is there not charms
by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused?”
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“O would you had had
her!”
Shows racial prejudice against Othello
BRABANTIO to Roderigo
“On, good Roderigo,
I’ll deserve your pains.”
