Act 1 Scene 2 quotes

Question 1

IAGO to Othello

“Though in the trade of war

Answer 1

I have slain men, yet do I hold it very stuff o’th conscience to do no contrived murder”

Question 2

IAGO to Othello

“I lack iniquity

Answer 2

sometimes to do me service.”

Question 3

Othello’s first line

Answer 3

” ‘Tis better as it is.”

Question 4

IAGO to Othello about Roderigo

“Nay, but he prated

Answer 4

And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honour”

Question 5

IAGO to Othello about Brabantio

“For be assured of this,

Answer 5

that the magnifico is much beloved, and hath in his effect a voice potential as double as the Duke’s.”

Question 6

IAGO to Othello about Brabantio

“He will divorce you,

Answer 6

Or put upon you what restraint and grievance the law, with all his might to enforce it on, will give him cable”

Question 7

OTHELLO to Iago about Brabantio

“Let him do his spite:

Answer 7

My services which I have done the signory, shall out-tongue his complaints.”

Question 8

OTHELLO to Iago

“‘Tis yet to know - which, when I know that boasting is an honour, I shall promulgate -

Answer 8

I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege”

Question 9

OTHELLO to Iago

“For know, Iago,

Answer 9

But that I love the gentle Desdemona”

Question 10

OTHELLO to Iago

“I would not my unhoused free condition

Answer 10

Put into circumscription and confine for the sea’s worth.”

Question 11

OTHELLO to Iago

“Not I; I must be found.

Answer 11

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.”

Question 12

Iago quote about two faced God

Answer 12

“By Janus, I think no.”

Question 13

OTHELLO to servants of the Duke and Cassio

Answer 13

“The goodness of the night upon you, friends.”

Polite and respectful

Question 14

CASSIO to Othello about the Duke

“The Duke does greet you, General,

Answer 14

And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance even on the instant.”

Question 15

CASSIO to Othello about the Duke

“You have been

Answer 15

hotly called for; When being not at your lodging to be found, the senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.”

Proof that the state’s need for Othello’s military leadership will outweigh any racial prejudice against him.

Question 16

What does Cassio call Iago in Act 1 scene 2?

Answer 16

“Ancient”

Question 17

IAGO to Cassio about Othello

“Faith, he tonight hath boarded

Answer 17

a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize, he’s made for ever.”

Question 18

IAGO when Roderigo and Brabantio enter

“You, Roderigo?

Answer 18

Come sir, I am for you.”

Question 19

OTHELLO to everyone

“Keep up your bright swords,

Answer 19

for the dew will rust them.”

Question 20

BRABANTIO to Othello

“O thou foul thief,

Answer 20

where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Question 21

BRABANTIO to Othello

“Damned as thou art,

Answer 21

thou hast enchanted her;”

Question 22

BRABANTIO to Othello

“For I’ll refer me to all things of sense,

Answer 22

If she in chains of magic were not bound, whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, so opposition to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curled darlings of out nation”

Question 23

BRABANTIO to Othello

“t’incur a general mock -

Answer 23

run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing”

Question 24

BRABANTIO to Othello

“as thou; to fear,

Answer 24

not to delight.”

Saying Othello is something to fear and not delight in.

Question 25

BRABANTIO to Othello

“Judge me the world,

Answer 25

if ‘tis not gross in sense that thou hast practised on her with foul charms”

Question 26

BRABANTIO to Othello

“Abused her

Answer 26

delicate youth with drugs and minerals that weakens motions”

Question 27

BRABANTIO arresting Othello

“I therefore apprehend, and do attach thee

Answer 27

For an abuser of the world, a practiser of arts inhibited and out of warrant.”

Question 28

BRABANTIO to his men about Othello

“Lay hold upon him;

Answer 28

if he do resist, subdue him at his peril.”

Question 29

OTHELLO to everyone after Brabantio tried to get his men to arrest him

“Hold your hands,

Answer 29

Both you of my inclining, and the rest.”

Question 30

OTHELLO to Brabantio - example of him being calm

“Were it my cue to fight,

Answer 30

I should have known it without a prompter. Where will you that I go to answer this charge?”

Question 31

What does Brabantio say to Othello when he calmly asks where he should go to answer the charge?

Answer 31

“To prison, till fit time”

Question 32

BRABANTIO after finding out the Duke is in council and has called after Othello and him too

Answer 32

“Bring him away; Mine’s not an idle cause. The Duke himself, or any of my brothers of the state, cannot but feel this wrong as ‘twere their own”

Question 33

BRABANTIO end of Act 1 scene 2

Answer 33

“For if such actions may have passage free, bonds slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.”