Act 3 Scene 3 quotes Flashcards
DESDEMONA telling Cassio she will try and help get him reinstated
“Be thou assured, good Cassio,
I will do all my abilities in thy behalf.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“Do not doubt, Cassio, but
I will have my lord and you again as friendly as you were.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“and be you well assured he shall in strangeness
stand no farther off than in a politic distance.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“Assure thee, If I do vow a friendship,
I’ll perform it to the last article.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“I’ll intermingle everything he does
with
Cassio’s suit.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“Therefore be merry, Cassio, for thy solicitor
shall rather die than give thy cause away.”
Desdemona to Othello when pleading him to reinstate Cassio
“I wonder in my soul what you would ask me
that I should deny, or stand so mammering on?”
DESDEMONA telling Othello she is trying to do something for his own good when asking him to reinstate Cassio
“to do a peculiar profit
to your own person.”
DESDEMONA to Othello
“Shall I deny you?
No. Farewell, my lord.”
DESDEMONA to Othello
“Whate’er you be,
I am obedient.”
CASSIO to Desdemona
“Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
he’s never anything but your true servant.”
CASSIO to Desdemona
“That I being absent and my place supplied,
my general will forget my love and service.”
obsessed with himself and reputation
DESDEMONA telling Othello about Cassio
“A man that languishes…
in your displeasure.”
DESDEMONA talking to Othello about Cassio
“For if he be not one that truly loves you,
That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning”
EMILIA to Cassio and Desdemona about reinstating Cassio
“I warrant it grieves
my husband As if the cause were his.”
Emilia notices Iago’s obsession with the cause
IAGO to Othello
“Ha! I like
not that.”
IAGO to Othello
“Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it that he would steal away
so guilty-like seeing you coming.”
IAGO to Othello saying why he mentioned Cassio
“But for a satisfaction of my thought,
no further harm.”
OTHELLO about Iago
“For such things in a false disloyal knave are tricks of customs;
but in a man that’s just they are close dilations, working from the heart, that passion cannot rule.”
IAGO to Othello
“Utter my thoughts?
Why, say they are vile and false,”
IAGO to Othello
“As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague
to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not”
admits he has negative traits, making himself seem more realistic
IAGO to Othello
“take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
out of his scattering and unsure observance.”
telling Othello not to listen to someone like him
IAGO to Othello
“It were not for your quiet nor your good,
nor for my manhood, honesty, wisdom to let you know my thoughts.”
trying to prove loyalty to Othello, like he’s trying to do what’s best for Othello by not telling him his thoughts.
IAGO to Othello
“But he that filches from me my good name
robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”
says opposite about reputation to Othello than he did to Cassio before.
IAGO to Othello
“But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
who dotes, yet doubts— suspects, yet soundly loves!”
describing Othello’s soon to be situation
IAGO to Othello
“God heaven, the souls of all my tribe,
defend from jealousy!”
IAGO to Othello
“Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio.
wear your eyes thus, not jealous nor secure. I would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty be abused. Look to ’t.”
IAGO to Othello
“I know our country disposition well.
In Venice they do let God see the pranks They dare not show their husbands.”
IAGO to Othello
“She did deceive her father, marrying you,
and when she seemed to shake and fear your looks, she loved them most.”
IAGO to Othello after telling him about Desdemona
“I hope you will consider what is spoke
comes from my love.”
IAGO to Othello
“I am to pray you not to strain my speech
to grosser issues nor to larger reach than to suspicion.”
IAGO to Othello, warning him not take his speech seriously, worrying if Othello does take it seriously, then
“My speech should fall into such vile success
which my thoughts aimed not at.”
IAGO to Othello:
“Cassio’s my
worthy friend”
IAGO to Othello
” As, to be bold with you, not to affect many proposed matches
of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends.”
IAGO to Othello
“I may fear her will, recoiling to her better judgment,
may fall to match you with her country forms, and happily repent.”
IAGO to Othello:
“Let me be thought too busy in my fears, as worthy cause I have to fear I am,
and hold her free, I do beseech your honour.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“I will deny thee
nothing”
OTHELLO
“Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee;
and when I love thee not, chaos is come again.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Discern’st thou aught in that?
Is he not honest?”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Alas, thou echoest me, As if
there were some monster in thy thought too hideous to be shown.”
Iago is the monster
OTHELLO to Iago
“Thou dost mean something. I heard thee say now,
thou lik’st not that, when Cassio left my wife. What didst not like?”
OTHELLO to Iago
“If thou dost love me,
Show me thy thought.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“And for I know thou’rt full of love and honesty,
and weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath,”
tragic - thinks Iago is honest
OTHELLO to Iago
“Nay, yet there’s more in this.
I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy,
to follow still the changes of the moon with fresh suspicions? No…Exchange me for a goat”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair,
feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
the smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose me.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“No Iago, I’ll see before I doubt;
when I doubt, prove;”
OTHELLO to Iago
“I am bound to thee
for ever.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“And yet, how nature
erring from itself - “
saying that one can act against one’s nature - and Desdemona might not be acting honest. Echoes what Brabantio says in Act 1 Scene 3, “For nature so prepost’rously to err”
OTHELLO about Iago
“This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more,
much more, than he unfolds.”
OTHELLO about Iago
“This fellow’s of
exceeding honesty”
OTHELLO about Desdemona
“If I do prove her haggard,
though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I’d whistle her off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune.”
OTHELLO
“Haply,
for I am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have;”
OTHELLO
“I am declined into the
vale of years”
OTHELLO
“She’s gone. I am
abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”
OTHELLO
“O curse of
marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.”
OTHELLO
“I had rather be a toad, and live
upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love for others’ uses.”
OTHELLO
“Even then, this forked
plague is fated to us when we do quicken.”
OTHELLO
“If she be false, o then
heaven mocks itself. I’ll not believe’t”
OTHELLO
“I have a pain upon my
forehead here.”
OTHELLO
“Thou hast set me on
the rack.”
OTHELLO
“I swear ‘tis better to be much abused,
than but to know’t a little.”
OTHELLO
“her stol’n hours of
lust.”
OTHELLO
“I saw’t not, thought it not,
it harmed not me.”
OTHELLO
“I slept the next night well, fed well, was
free and merry;”
OTHELLO
“I found not Cassio’s
kisses on her lips.”
OTHELLO
“I had been happy, if the general camp,
Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known.”
OTHELLO
“O now, for ever farewell the tranquil mind;
farewell content; farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars that make ambition virtue. O, farewell. Farewell the neighing steed…”
OTHELLO
“Farewell. Othello’s occupation’s
gone.”
OTHELLO
“Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
be sure of it.”
OTHELLO
“Give me the ocular
proof, or by the worth of mine eternal soul, thou hadst been better have been born a dog than answer my waked wrath.”
OTHELLO
“Made me to see’t: or at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop to hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life.”
OTHELLO
“If thou dost slander her and torture me..
…Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed: For nothing canst thou to damnation add greater than that.”
OTHELLO
“I think my wife be honest,
and think she is not. I think that thou art just, and think thou art not.”
OTHELLO
“Her name that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now
begrimed and black as mine own face.”
OTHELLO
“Death and
damnation! O!”
OTHELLO
“Give me a living
reason she’s disloyal.”
OTHELLO
“O monstrous!
Monstrous!
OTHELLO
“I’ll tear her
all to pieces.”
OTHELLO
“O, that the slave had
forty thousand lives. One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.”
OTHELLO
“Now do I see
‘tis true.”
OTHELLO
“All my fond love thus do I blow
to heaven. ‘Tis gone.”
OTHELLO
“Arise, black vengeance,
from the hollow hell. Yield up, o love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For ‘tis of aspics’ tongues.”
OTHELLO
“O, blood, blood,
blood!”
Iago: “Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.”
Othello: “Never Iago. Like to the Pontic sea,
whose icy current and compulsive course ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on to the Propontic and the Hellespont;”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace
Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love, till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up.”
OTHELLO
“Now, by bond marble heaven,
in the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“I greet thy love… and will upon the instant put thee to’t. Within these
three days let me hear thee say that Cassio’s not alive.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Damn her, lewd
minx! O, damn her, damn her!”
OTHELLO to Iago
“I will withdraw to furnish me
with some swift means of death for the fair devil.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Now art thou my
lieutenant.”
IAGO to Emilia
“A thing for me?
It is a common thing - “
IAGO to audience
“I will in Cassio’s lodging
lose this napkin, and let him find it.”
IAGO to audience
“Trifles light as air are to the jealous
confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
IAGO to audience
“This may do something. The Moor already changes
with my poison.”
IAGO to audience
“Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons…
But, with a little, act upon the blood, burn like the mines of sulphur.”
IAGO to audience
“Not poppy, nor mandragora,
nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday.”
IAGO to Othello
“O grace! O heaven defend me!…
Take note, take note, o world! To be direct and honest is not safe. I thank you for this profit, and from hence I’ll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.”
IAGO to Othello
“I should be wise; for honesty’s a fool,
and loses that it works for.”
IAGO to Othello
“I see, sir, you are eaten
up with passion.”
IAGO to Othello
“Behold her
topped?
crude language
IAGO to Othello
“Were they are prime as goats,
as hot as monkeys”
IAGO to Othello offering circumstantial evidence
“If imputation and strong circumstances,
which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you might have’t.”
IAGO to Othello
“I do not like the office. But sith
I am entered in this cause so far, pricked to’t by foolish honesty and love”
IAGO to Othello
“In sleep I heard him say,
‘Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves’”
IAGO to Othello
“In sleep I heard him say,
‘Sweet Desdemona, let us be wary, let us hide our loves’”
IAGO to Othello
“And then, sir, would he gripe and
wring my hand, cry, ‘O, sweet creature,’ then kiss me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the roots”
IAGO to Othello about Cassio’s ‘dream’
“and then cried, ‘Cursed fate
that gave thee to the Moor.”
Iago: “Nay, this was but his dream.”
Othello: “But this denoted
a foregone conclusion.”
IAGO to Othello
“Tis a shrewd doubt…And this may help to
thicken other proofs that do demonstrate thinly.”
IAGO brings up the handkerchief
“Tell me but this, have you not sometimes seen a
handkerchief , spotted with strawberries, in your wife’s hand?”
IAGO to Othello
“but such a handkerchief - I am sure it was your wife’s -
did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with.”
IAGO to Othello
“Do not rise yet. Witness you ever-burning lights above,
you elements that clip us round about, witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands, heart, to wronged Othello’s service.”
IAGO to Othello
“Let him command,
and to obey shall be in me remorse, what bloody business ever.”
IAGO to Othello speaking about Cassio
“My friend is dead;
‘tis done at your request. But let her live.”
EMILIA
“This was her first remembrance
from the Moor.”
EMILIA
“My wayward husband hath
a hundred times wooed me to steal it.”
EMILIA about Desdemona and handkerchief
“But she so loves the token,
For he conjured her she should ever keep it, that she reserves it evermore about her to kiss and talk to.”
EMILIA
“What he will do with it, heaven knows,
not I; I nothing but to please his fantasy.”
EMILIA to Iago
“That which so often you did bid
me steal.”
EMILIA to Iago
“If it be not for some purpose of import,
give’t me again. Poor lady, she’ll run mad when she shall lack it.”
