Act 3 Scene 4 quotes

Question 1

DESDEMONA to Clown

“Seek him, bid him come hither;

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tell him I have moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.”

Question 2

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse

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full of crusadoes.”

Question 3

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“And, but my noble Moor is true of mind,

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and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are, it were enough to put him to ill-thinking.”

Question 4

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“Who? He? I think the sun

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where he was born drew all such humours from him.”

Question 5

OTHELLO aside

“O, hardness

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to dissemble!”

Question 6

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“This hand is

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moist, my lady.”

Question 7

DESDEMONA to Othello about her hand

“It yet has felt no age,

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nor known no sorrow.”

Question 8

OTHELLO to Desdemona about her hand

“This argues fruitfulness, and liberal heart…

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For here’s a young and sweating devil here that commonly rebels.”

Question 9

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“I have a salt and sorry

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rheum offends me. Lend me thy handkerchief.”

Question 10

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my give,

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she was a charmer.”

Question 11

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“She told her…‘Twould make her amiable,

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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”

Question 12

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“She, dying, gave it me, and bid me,

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when my fate would have me wive to give it her.”

Question 13

OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief

“take heed on’t,

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make it a darling like your precious eye.”

Question 14

OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief

“To lose, or giv’t away

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were such a perdition as nothing else could match.”

Question 15

OTHELLO to Desdemona about the handkerchief

“There’s magic in the

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web of it.”

Question 16

OTHELLO to Desdemona about handkerchief

“it was dyed in mummy,

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which the skilful conserved or maidens’ hearts.”

Question 17

DESDEMONA to Othello

“Then would to God

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that I had never seen it.”

Question 18

DESDEMONA to Othello

“Why do you speak so startlingly

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and rash?”

Question 19

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“Is’t lost? Is’t gone? Speak: is’t

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out o’th’way?”

Question 20

OTHELLO to Desdemona

“Fetch me the handkerchief.

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My mind misgives.”

Question 21

DESDEMONA about Cassio to Othello

“A man that all his time hath

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founded his good fortunes on your love, shared dangers with you - “

Question 22

What does Othello repeat to Desdemona when asking about the handkerchief?

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“The handkerchief.” - and Desdemona simply responds by bringing up Cassio.

Question 23

DESDEMONA to Emilia about Othello

“I ne’er saw

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this before.”

Question 24

EMILIA to Dedemona about men

“They are all but stomachs,

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and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.”

Question 25

DESDEMONA to Cassio

“My lord is not

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my lord; nor should I know him, were he in favour as in humour altered.”

Question 26

DESDEMONA

“So help me every spirit

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sanctified,”

Question 27

DESDEMONA to Cassio

“As I have spoken for you all my best,

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and stood within the blank of his displeasure for my free speech.”

Question 28

DESDEMONA to Cassio

“What I can do I will; and more I will

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than for myself I dare.”

Question 29

IAGO to Desdemona, Emilia and Cassio

“Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon when it hath blown his ranks into the air,

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and, like the devil, from his very arm puffed his own brother - and is he angry?”

Question 30

DESDEMONA to Emilia and Cassio

“Something sure of state…

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hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, though great ones are their object.”

Question 31

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“Beshrew me much, Emilia,

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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.”

Question 32

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“Alas the day!

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I never gave him cause.”

Question 33

EMILIA to Desdemona

“But jealous should will not be answered so;

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they are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.”

Question 34

DESDEMONA to Emilia

“Heaven keep that monster from

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Othello’s mind.”

Question 35

CASSIO to Bianca

“How is it with you, my

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most fair Bianca?…sweet love”

Calls her “most fair” and “sweet love”

Question 36

BIANCA to Cassio

“What, keep

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a week away?”

Question 37

What does Cassio tell Bianca to do with the handkerchief?

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“Take me this work out.”

Question 38

BIANCA to Cassio

“This is some token

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from a newer friend.”

Question 39

CASSIO to Bianca

“Go to, woman…

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You are jealous now that this is from some mistress, some remembrance.”

Question 40

CASSIO to Bianca

“I found it in my chamber.

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I like the work well.”

Question 41

CASSIO to Bianca

“I do attend here on the general,

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and think it not addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned.”