Act 3 Scene 4 quotes Flashcards
DESDEMONA to Clown
“Seek him, bid him come hither;
tell him I have moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
full of crusadoes.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“And, but my noble Moor is true of mind,
and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are, it were enough to put him to ill-thinking.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“Who? He? I think the sun
where he was born drew all such humours from him.”
OTHELLO aside
“O, hardness
to dissemble!”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“This hand is
moist, my lady.”
DESDEMONA to Othello about her hand
“It yet has felt no age,
nor known no sorrow.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona about her hand
“This argues fruitfulness, and liberal heart…
For here’s a young and sweating devil here that commonly rebels.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“I have a salt and sorry
rheum offends me. Lend me thy handkerchief.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my give,
she was a charmer.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“She told her…‘Twould make her amiable,
and subdue my father entirely to her love; but if she lost it or made a gift of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathed”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“She, dying, gave it me, and bid me,
when my fate would have me wive to give it her.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief
“take heed on’t,
make it a darling like your precious eye.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief
“To lose, or giv’t away
were such a perdition as nothing else could match.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona about the handkerchief
“There’s magic in the
web of it.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief
“it was dyed in mummy,
which the skilful conserved or maidens’ hearts.”
DESDEMONA to Othello
“Then would to God
that I had never seen it.”
DESDEMONA to Othello
“Why do you speak so startlingly
and rash?”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“Is’t lost? Is’t gone? Speak: is’t
out o’th’way?”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“Fetch me the handkerchief.
My mind misgives.”
DESDEMONA about Cassio to Othello
“A man that all his time hath
founded his good fortunes on your love, shared dangers with you - “
What does Othello repeat to Desdemona when asking about the handkerchief?
“The handkerchief.” - and Desdemona simply responds by bringing up Cassio.
DESDEMONA to Emilia about Othello
“I ne’er saw
this before.”
EMILIA to Dedemona about men
“They are all but stomachs,
and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“My lord is not
my lord; nor should I know him, were he in favour as in humour altered.”
DESDEMONA
“So help me every spirit
sanctified,”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“As I have spoken for you all my best,
and stood within the blank of his displeasure for my free speech.”
DESDEMONA to Cassio
“What I can do I will; and more I will
than for myself I dare.”
IAGO to Desdemona, Emilia and Cassio
“Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon when it hath blown his ranks into the air,
and, like the devil, from his very arm puffed his own brother - and is he angry?”
DESDEMONA to Emilia and Cassio
“Something sure of state…
hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, though great ones are their object.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“Beshrew me much, Emilia,
I was, unhandsome warrior as I am, arraigning his unkindness with my soul; but now I find I had suborned the witness, and he’s indicated falsely.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“Alas the day!
I never gave him cause.”
EMILIA to Desdemona
“But jealous should will not be answered so;
they are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.”
DESDEMONA to Emilia
“Heaven keep that monster from
Othello’s mind.”
CASSIO to Bianca
“How is it with you, my
most fair Bianca?…sweet love”
Calls her “most fair” and “sweet love”
BIANCA to Cassio
“What, keep
a week away?”
What does Cassio tell Bianca to do with the handkerchief?
“Take me this work out.”
BIANCA to Cassio
“This is some token
from a newer friend.”
CASSIO to Bianca
“Go to, woman…
You are jealous now that this is from some mistress, some remembrance.”
CASSIO to Bianca
“I found it in my chamber.
I like the work well.”
CASSIO to Bianca
“I do attend here on the general,
and think it not addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned.”
