key quotations - othello Flashcards
a counter…
caster
ACT 1
almost damn’d..
in a fair wife
ACT 1
never set a..
squadron in a field
ACT 1
bookish…
theoric
ACT 1
i follow him..
to serve my turn upon him
ACT 1
in following him..
i follow but myself
ACT 1
i will wear my…
heart upon my sleeve
ACT 1
i am not..
what i am
ACT 1
the thick…
-lips
ACT 1
zounds, sir..
you’re robb’d
ACT 1
your daughter and/ the Moor…
are now making the beast with two backs
ACT 1
an old black ram/…
is tupping your white ewe
ACT 1
my parts, my title and my perfect soul..
shall manifest me rightly
ACT 1
a maid so …
tender, fair, happy
ACT 1
she is abus’d, …
stol’n from me
ACT 1
most potent…
grave and reverend signiors
ACT 1
thou hast…
enchanted her
ACT 1
adieu, brave Moor;…
use desdemona well
ACT 1
she has deceived…
her father, and may thee
ACT 1
my life upon…
her faith
ACT 1
honest…
iago
ACT 1
i hate the Moor,
and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets
He’s done my office
ACT 1
The Moor is of…
a free and open nature…/ And will as tenderly be led by the nose/As asses are
ACT 1
with as little a web as this…
will i ensnare as great a fly as / Cassio
IAGO IN ACT 2 WHEN CASSIO KISSED DESDEMONAS HAND
O, my fair
warrior!
ACT 2, OTH TO DES
O, my soul’s
joy.
ACT 2, OTH TO DES
desdemona is…
directly in love with him
ACT 2, IAG TO ROD ABT CAS
her delicate…
tenderness will find itself / abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor / the Moor
ACT 2, IAG TO ROD ABT DES
that cassio loves…
her, i do well believe’t
ACT 2 IAG SOL 2
The Moor, howbeit that i endure him not, /
is of a constant, loving, noble nature
ACT 2, IAGO SOL 2
And nothing can or shall content…
my soul / till i am even’d with him, wife for wife
iago is most…
honest
ACT 2, OTH TO CAS
she is a most..
fresh and delicate creature
ACT 2, CAS TO IAG ABT DES
she is indeed..
perfection
ACT 2, CAS TO IAG ABT DES
i have very poor and…
unhappy brains for drinking
ACT 2, CAS TO IAG
am i to put cassio in some…
action / That may offend the isle
ACT 2, IAG ABT CAS
i had rather have this tongue cut from…
my mouth / Than it should do offence to michael cassio
ACT 2, IAG TO OTH ABT CAS
thy honesty and love…
doth mince this matter / making it light to cassio
ACT 2, OTH TO IAG ABT CAS
cassio, i love thee…
but never more be officer of mine
ACT 2, OTH TO CAS
reputation, reputation, reputation!…
O! i have lost my reputation! i have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial
ACT 2, CAS TO IAG
Ill pour this pestilence into his ear;…
that she repeals him for her body’s lust;/ And by how much she strives to do him good / So i will turn her virture into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all
ACT 2, IAGO SOL 3 ABT DES
i never knew a florentine..
more kind and honest
ACT 3, CAS ABT IAG
Ha!..
i like not that
ACT 3, IAG TO OTH AFTER SEEING CAS LEAVE DES
Cassio, my lord? No, sure i cannot…
think it / That he would steal away so guilty-like, / seeing you coming
ACT 3, IAG TO OTH
Excellent wretch!..
Perdition catch my soul / But i do love thee; and when i love thee not / Chaos is come again
ACT 3, OTH WHEN DES LEAVES
o beware, my lord, of jealousy:
it is the green-eyed monster
ACT 3, IAG TO OTH
for she had eyes…
and chose me
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
she did deceive her father, …
marrying you
ACT 3, IAG TO OTH ABT DES
i do not think but desdemona’s …
honest
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
i am bound to thee…
forever
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
O curse of marriage, / That we call…
these delicate creatures ours / And not their appetites
ACT 3, OTH ABT DES
if she be false, O then heaven…
mocks itself; I’ll not believe it
ACT 3, OTH ABT DES
Trifles light as air…
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
ACT 3, IAG ABT DES HANDKERCHIEF
Villain, be sure thou prove…
my love a whore; / Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
if thou dost slander…
her and torture me, never pray more
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
i think my wife be…
honest.. and think she is not
ACT 3, OTH TO IAG
is he not…
jealous?
ACT 3, EMI TO DES ABT OTH
i think the sun where…
he was born / drew all such humours from him
ACT 3, DES TO EMI ABT OTH
fetch me the…
handkerchief. my mind misgives
ACT 3, OTH TO DES ABT HANDKERCHIEF
how shall i murder…
him, iago?
ACT 4, OTH TO IAG FOLLOWING IAG AND CAS CONVO IN THE HEARING OF OTHELLO
i will chop her into…
messes
ACT 4, OTH TO IAG ABT KILLING DES
strangle her in her bed…
even the bed / she hath contaminated
ACT 4, IAG TO OTH ABT KILLING DES
if any wretch have put this in your head…
let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse!
ACT 4, EMI TO OTH ABT DES
impudent..
strumpet!
ACT 4, OTH TO DES
the whiter skin of hers than snow…
and smooth as monumental alabaster - / yet she must die; else she’ll betray more men
ACT 5, OTH IN DES BEDCHAMBER
a guiltless…
death i die
ACT 5, DES TO EMI
but yet iago knows…
that she with cassio hath the act of shame / a thousand times committed
ACT 5, OTH TO GRATIANO
then you must speak…
of one that lov’d not wisely, but too well
ACT 5, OTH TO LODOVICO
killling myself…
to die upon a kiss
ACT 5, OTH TO DEAD DES
look on the tragic loading…
of this bed: this is thy work
ACT 5, LOD TO IAG
