Act 4 Scene 1 quotes Flashcards
OTHELLO to Iago
“Naked in bed, Iago,
and not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil.”
IAGO to Othello
“Her honour is an essence that’s not seen;
They have it very oft that have it not. But for the handkerchief - “
OTHELLO to Iago about the handkerchief
“By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it!
Thou said’st - O it comes o’er my memory as doth the raven o’er the infected house, boding to all - he had my handkerchief.”
IAGO to Othello about Cassio
“What if I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
Or heard him say - as knaves be such abroad…But they must blab - “
OTHELLO
“Lie with her?
Lie on her?… Zounds, that’s fulsome. Handkerchief - confessions - handkerchief!”
OTHELLO about Cassio
“To confess and be hanged for his labour -
first to be hanged, and then to confess. I tremble at it.”
OTHELLO
“Nature would not invest herself in such a shadowing passion
without some instruction.”
OTHELLO
“Pish!
Noses, ears, and lips… O devil!”
OTHELLO stage directions Act 4 scene 1
[Falls in a trance]
IAGO
“Work on my medicine,
work! Thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames, even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach.”
CASSIO
“Rub him
about the temples.”
IAGO to Cassio
“My lord is fall’n
into an epilepsy. This is his second fit, he had one yesterday.”
IAGO to Othello
“How is it, general?
Have you not hurt your head?”
Othello: “Dost thou mock me?”
OTHELLO to Iago
“A horned man’s a monster
and a beast.”
IAGO to Othello
“Good sir, be a man.
Think every bearded fellow that’s but yoked may draw with you… Your case is better.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“O, thou art
wise”
IAGO to Othello about Cassio
“Do but encave yourself,
and mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns that dwell in every region of his face.”
IAGO to Othello about Cassio
“For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when he hath, and is again to cope your wife.”
IAGO to Othello
“Marry, patience,
Or I shall say y’are all in all in spleen and nothing of a man.”
OTHELLO to Iago about hiding from Cassio
“I will be found most cunning in
my patience. But - dost thus hear? - most bloody.
IAGO to audience
“Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
a housewife that by selling her desires buys herself bread and clothes”
IAGO about Bianca
“It is a creature that
dotes on Cassio.”
IAGO about Cassio and Bianca
“He when he hears of her
cannot refrain from the excess of laughter.”
IAGO about Cassio
“As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
and his unbookish jealousy must construe poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviours, quite in the wrong.”
IAGO to Cassio
“Ply Desdemona well
and you are sure on’t”
CASSIO about Bianca
“Alas, poor rogue!
I think i’faith she loves me.”
IAGO about Bianca to Cassio
“She gives it out that
you shall marry her”
CASSIO about Bianca to Cassio
“I marry her?
What? A customer! Prithee bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha!”
IAGO to Cassio about Bianca saying she will marry Cassio
“I am a very
villain else.”
CASSIO about Bianca
“This is the monkey’s own
giving out. She is persuaded I will marry her out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.”
CASSIO about Bianca
“She was here even now;
she haunts me in every place.”
CASSIO about Bianca
“I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians,
and thither comes the bauble”
CASSIO about Bianca
“So hangs, and lolls,
and weeps upon me; so hales, and pulls me.”
OTHELLO about Cassio
“O, I see that nose of yours,
but not that dog I shall throw it to!”
CASSIO to Iago/Bianca
“‘Tis such another
fitchew…What do you mean by this haunting of me?”
BIANCA to Cassio
“Let the devil
and his dam haunt you.”
BIANCA to Cassio about handkerchief
“I was a fine
fool to take it.”
BIANCA to Cassio about handkerchief
“This is some
minx’s token, and I must take out the work? There, give it your hobby-horse; wheresoever you had it, I’ll take out no work on’t.”
CASSIO about Bianca
“Faith I must,
she’ll rail in the street else.”
OTHELLO coming out for the first time about overhearing Cassio and Iago’s conversation
“How shall I
murder him, Iago?”
IAGO to Othello
“And to see how he prizes the
foolish woman your wife; she gave it him, and he hath giv’nt it his whore.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“I would have him
nine years a-killing. A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Ay, let her
rot and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“No, my heart is turned to
stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.”
OTHELLO to Iago about Desdemona
“O the world hath not a
sweeter creature; she might lie by an emperor’s side and command him tasks.”
OTHELLO to Iago about Desdemona
“Hang her, I do but say what she is:
so delicate with a needle, an admirable musician. O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.”
OTHELLO about Desdemona
“Of so high and
plenteous wit and invention.”
Iago: “She’s the worse for all this.”
OTHELLO conflicting about Desdemona
“O a thousand thousand times -
and then of so gentle a condition.”
OTHELLO to Iago - we start feeling sympathy for Othello here?
“but yet the pity of it, Iago.
O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!”
OTHELLO
“I will chop
her into messes. Cuckold me!…With mine officer.”
OTHELLO to Iago
“Get me some poison Iago;
this night. I’ll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unproved my mind again.”
IAGO to Othello
“Do it not with poison,
strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.”
OTHELLO to Iago after Iago suggests to kill Desdemona in her bed
“Good, good;
the justice of it pleases; very good.”
Lodovico’s first line
“Save you, worthy general.”
DESDEMONA to Lodovico
“Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord
and unkind breach; but you shall make all well.”
LODOVICO
“He did not call; he’s busy in the paper.
Is there division ‘twixt my lord and Cassio?|
DESDEMONA to Lodovico
“A most unhappy one. I would do much
T’atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.”
OTHELLO
“Fire and
brimstone!”
LODOVICO
“Maybe the letter moved him,
For as I think, they do command him home, deputing Cassio in his government.”
Describe the striking of Desdemona scene
OTHELLO Indeed?
DESDEMONA My lord?
OTHELLO I am glad to see you mad.
DESDEMONA Why, sweet Othello!
OTHELLO, ⌜striking her⌝ Devil!
DESDEMONA I have not deserved this.
What does Desdemona say after Othello hits her?
“I have not deserved this.”
What does Lodovico say after witnessing Othello hit Desdemona?
“My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, Though I should swear I saw ’t. ’Tis very much. Make her amends; she weeps.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona/Lodovico
“O, devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. Out of my sight!”
DESDEMONA to Othello after he has hit her
“I will not stay to
offend you.”
OTHELLO do Lodovico
“Sir, she can turn,
and turn, and yet go on, and turn again. And she can weep, sir, weep.”
OTHELLO to Desdemona
“Proceed you
in your tears…O, well-painted passion -“
OTHELLO to Lodovico
“Cassio shall have
my place…You are welcome sir, to Cyprus. - Goats and monkeys!”
LODOVICO
“Is this the noble
Moor whom our full senate call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue the shot of accident, nor dart of chance could neither graze nor pierce?
LODOVICO to Iago
“Are his wits
safe? Is he not light of brain?”
LODOVICO to Iago
“What, strike
his wife!”
IAGO to Lodovico about Othello
“Do but go after,
and mark how he continues.”
