Othello Flashcards
Othello 1.2
‘Let him do his spite’
‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul’
‘Keep up your bright swords, for the dews will rust them’
Othello 1.3
‘Rude am I in my speech, and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace’
‘What drugs, what charms, what conjuration and what mighty magic —for such proceedings I am charged withal— I won his daughter’
‘She gave me for my pains a world of sighs / she swore in faith twas strange… twas pitiful’
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them’
Othello 2.1
‘If it were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy’
Othello 2.3
‘And passion, having my best judgment collide’
Othello 3.3
‘But I do love thee; and when I love thee not/ chaos is come again’
‘And for I know tho’rt full of love and honesty’
‘Not from mine own weak merits will I draw/ the smallest fear or doubt of her revolt’
‘Away at once with love or jealousy’
‘I am black / and have not those soft parts of conversation’
‘I am declined/into the vale of years’
‘If she be false, o then heaven mocks itself’
‘Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore… give me ocular proof’
‘As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black / as mine own face’
‘I’ll tear her all to pieces’
Othello 3.4
‘There’s magic in the web of it’
‘This hand is moist, my lady’
Othello 4.1
‘Handkerchief —confessions— handkerchief! To confess and be hanged for his labour’
‘I’ll not expostulate with her, rest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again’
Slaps Desdemona
Othello 4.2
‘Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, /made to write whore upon?’
‘Impudent strumpet!’
Othello 5.2
‘Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men’
‘When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again’
Kills desdemona
‘Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse /of sun and moon, and that affrighted globe/ should yawn at alteration’
‘She’s like a liar gone to burning hell’
‘Blow me about in winds. Roast me in sulphur. Wash me in sleep-down gulfs of liquid fire’
‘I took by th’throat the uncircumcised dog, and smote him, thus’
