Key Quotations Flashcards
Iago “I follow him to…
Serve my turn upon him”
Iago” am old black ram is…
Typing your white ewe”
Iago “ poison his delight…
Plague him with flies”
Iago” though I do hate him…
As I do hell pains”
Othello “ I love the…
Gentle Desdemona”
Iago” with the little godliness I have…
, I did full hard forbear him”
Othello “ my parts, my title and my…
Perfect soul shall manifest”
Brabantio “foul thief…
Thou hast enchanted her”
Brabantio “ t’incur a general mock…
To the sooty bosom”
Brabantio “with foul charms…
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals”
Brabantio “she shunned the wealthy…
Curléd darlings of our nations”
First senator” the valiant…
Moot”
Othello “ what drugs, what conjuration, and what mighty magic…
I won his daughter”
Brabantio” blushed at herself- in spite of nature…
Against all rules of nature… cunning hell”
Iago” I hate the moor…
Twixt my sheets”
Act 2
Act 2
Montano” wind hath…
Spoke”
Second gentlemen” the wind- shaked surge with…
High and monstrous mane”
Third gentlemen “ the desperate tempest…
Hath so banged the Turks
Third gentlemen “foul and …
Violent tempest”
Cassio “ their mortal natures, letting go safely …
By the divine Desdemona”
Cassio “hail to thee lady…
He kisses Emilia (italics)”
Iago “ Sir, would she give you so much of her lips…
As of her tongue she oft bestows me”
Iago” housewives in your beds…
You rise to play, and go to bed to work”
Iago” with as little a web as this will ensnare…
As a great a fly as Cassio”
Iago “the wine she drinks is…
Made of grapes”
Iago “her eye must….
Be fed”
Herald “ it is Othello’s pleasure…
Our noble and valiant general”
Herald “mere perdition…
Of the Turkish fleet”
Herald “ full liberty of feasting..
From this present hour of five”
Othello “Iago is the most..
Honest”
Cassio “ I have drunk but…
One cup tonight”
Cassio “my reputation Iago,…
My reputation!”
Iago “ I’ll pour this pestilence…
In his ear”
Iago “Divinity of hell! When devils…
Will the blackest sins put on”
Act 3
Act 3
Boy musician “ whereby hangs a…
Tail, sir?”
Clown “ Go vanish into air,
Away!”
Cassio” I never knew a Florentine…
More kind and honest”
Emilia” he protests…
He loves you”
Cassio “ give me advantage of some brief discourse…
With Desdemona alone”
Emilia “ to speak your….
Bosom freely”
Othello” these letters give, Iago…
, to the pilot”
Othello” perdition catch my soul I do love thee!…
And when I love thee not, chaos is come again”
Iago “ O beware, my Lord, of jealousy!…
It is the green eyed monster which dory mock the meat it feeds on”
Iago “ Have you not seen a handkerchief…
Spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?
Iago” the laid his leg, over my thigh,and sigh’d, and kiss’d…
And then cried” cursed fate that gave thee to the moor”
Iago” prime as goats,…
Hot as monkeys”
Iago “ foul disproportions…
Thoughts unnatural”
Othello” farewell the tranquil mind; …
Farewell content;”
Othello” as Dians visage …
Is now begrimed black”
Othello “ o, blood…
Blood,blood”
Othello” Damn her, lewd minx!…
O damn her, damn her”
Desdemona” Id rather lost my purse full of crusadoes…
Then my noble Moor”
Othello “ hot, hot and moist…
Sweating devil here “
Othello “ to lose’t or give’t away…
We’re such perdition”
Emilia “ they are all but stomachs,…
And we all but food.. and when they are full, they belch us”
Emilia “ not jealous for the cause….
But jealous for they’re jealous”
Act 4
Act4
Othello” naked in bed, Iago…
And not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil”
Othello” boding to all…
- he had my handkerchief”
Othello” is’t possible ? Confess?…
O, devil!”
Iago “ there’s many a beast in a populous city…,
And many a civil monster”
Iago “ a hussy that…
By selling her desires”
Bianca stage direction” she throws down…
The handkerchief “
Othello” ya, let her rot and perish and be damned …
Tonight for she shall not live “
Othello “ my heart is turned…
To atone”
Iago” strangle her in bed,…
Even the bed she hath contaminated”
Othello”each drop she falls will prove…
A crocodile - out of my sight!”
Desdemona “ your wife, my lord, …
Your true and loyal wife”
Desdemona “ and his unkindness may defeat my life…
But never taint my love”
Desdemona “no as I a Christian…
Be not to be a Strumpet . I am none”
Othello” this is a subtle…
Whore”
Othello” ah Desdemona …
Away,away, away”
Othello” impudent
Strumpet “
Emilia “ the moors abused by some…
Villanous knave “
Desdemona “ song of willow…
And she died singing it”
Desdemona “ tell me Emilia , do women such abuse …
Their husbands in such a gross kind”
Act 5
Act 5
Roderigo “ forth my sword …
He dies”
Iago “ he hath a daily beauty in his …
Life that makes me ugly”
Othello” o brave Iago…
Honest and just”
Cassio” murder…
Murder”
Roderigo “ o damned Iago!…O”
Inhuman dog”
Cassio “my leg is ..
In two”
Iago” this is the night that either…
Makes me, or fordoes me quite”
Othello” yet, she must die…
Else she’ll betray more men”
