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Othello Act One Quotes Flashcards

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘though I do hate…’

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‘though I do hate him as I hate hell pains’ - Iago

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Roderigo (to Iago)

Act One Scene One

‘hast had my…’

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Roderigo (to Iago) - ‘hast had my purse As if the strings were thine’

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Roderigo

Act One Scene One

‘ Thou told’st me thou…’

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Roderigo - ‘Thou told’st me thou didst hold him in thy hate’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘Three great ones of the city…’

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Iago - ‘Three great ones of the city In personal suit to make me his lieutenant Off-capp’d to him’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘I know my price…’

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Iago - ‘I know my price, I am worth no worse a place’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘a great arithmetician One Michael Cassio…’

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Iago - ‘a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, (A fellow almost damned in a fair wife), That never set a squadron in the field’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘his Moorship’s…’

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Iago - ‘his Moorship’s ancient’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘By heaven, I rather would…’

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Iago - ‘By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘Preferment goes by…’

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Iago - ‘Preferment goes by letter and affection, not by old gradation’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘be judge yourself…’

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Iago - ‘be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affined To love the Moor’

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Roderigo

Act One Scene One

‘I would not…’

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Roderigo - ‘I would not follow him then’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘I follow him…’

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Iago - ‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘We cannot all be…’

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Iago - ‘We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘It is as sure as you are, Roderigo…’

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Iago - ‘It is as sure as you are, Roderigo Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘I am not…’

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Iago - ‘I am not what I am’

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Roderigo

Act One Scene One

‘What a full fortune…’

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Roderigo - ‘What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘Call up her father…’

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Iago - ‘Call up her father … poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets’

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Roderigo

Act One Scene One

‘Brabantio! Look to your house…’

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Roderigo - ‘Brabantio! Look to your house, your daughter, your bags! Thieves! thieves!’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘Your heart is burst,…’

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Iago - ‘Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘an old black ram…’

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Iago - ‘an old black ram is tupping your white ewe’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘the devil will make…’

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Iago - ‘the devil will make a grandsire of you’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘covered with…’

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Iago - ‘covered with a Barbary horse’

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Iago

Act One Scene One

‘your daughter and the Moor are…’

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Iago - ‘your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs’

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Roderigo

Act One Scene One

‘gross clasps of…’

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Roderigo - ‘gross clasps of the lascivious Moor’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene One

‘It is too true an evil:…’

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Brabantio - ‘It is too true an evil: gone she is; And what’s to come of my despised time Is nought but bitterness’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene One

‘Is there not charms…’

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Brabantio - ‘Is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene One

‘Thou art…’

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‘Thou art a villain’ - Brabantio

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Brabantio

Act One Scene One

‘This is…’

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‘This is Venice’ - Brabantio

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Iago

Act One Scene Two

‘scurvy and provoking terms…’

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Iago - ‘scurvy and provoking terms Against your honour’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘Let him do his spite…’

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Othello - ‘Let him do his spite: My services which I have done the signiory Shall out-tongue his complaints’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘I fetch my life and being…’

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Othello - ‘I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘to as proud a fortune…’

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Othello - ‘to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach’d’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘I love the…’

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Othello - ‘I love the gentle Desdemona’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘my parts, my title…’

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Othello - ‘my parts, my title and my perfect soul Shall manifest me rightly’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘Keep up your bright swords…’

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Othello - ‘Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them’

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Othello

Act One Scene Two

‘Good signior, you shall…’

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Othello - ‘Good signior, you shall more command with years Than with your weapons’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Two

‘to the sooty bosom Of such…’

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Brabantio - ‘to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou - to fear, not to delight’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Two

‘thou hast practised on her with…’

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Brabantio - ‘thou hast practised on her with foul charms, Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals’

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The Duke of Venice

Act One Scene Three

‘Valiant…’

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The Duke of Venice - ‘Valiant Othello’

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The Duke of Venice

Act One Scene Three

‘I did not see you…’

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Duke - ‘I did not see you; welcome, signior’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘My daughter!…’

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Brabantio - ‘My daughter! O, my daughter!’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘abused, stol’n from me,…’

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Brabantio - ‘abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘Most potent, grave, and reverend…’

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Othello - ‘Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good master’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘That I have taken away this old man’s daughter…’

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Othello - ‘That I have taken away this old man’s daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘A maiden never bold;…’

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Brabantio - ‘A maiden never bold; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush’d at herself’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘To fall in love…’

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Brabantio - ‘To fall in love with what she feared to look on!’

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The Duke of Venice

Act One Scene Three

‘Say it, …’

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Duke - ‘Say it, Othello’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘Her father loved me…’

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Othello - ‘Her father loved me; oft invited me’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘She loved me for the dangers…’

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Othello - ‘She loved me for the dangers I had pass’d, And I loved her that she did pity them’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘Do you perceive in all this noble…’

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Brabantio - ‘Do you perceive in all this noble company Where most you owe obedience?’

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Desdemona

Act One Scene Three

‘My noble father I do perceive here a divided…’

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Desdemona - ‘My noble father I do perceive here a divided duty: To you I am bound for life and education’

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Desdemona

Act One Scene Three

‘I am hitherto your daughter:…’

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Desdemona - ‘I am hitherto your daughter: but here’s my husband’

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Desdemona

Act One Scene Three

‘I challenge that I may profess…’

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Desdemona - ‘I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘For your sake jewel I am glad…’

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Brabantio - ‘For your sake jewel I am glad at soul I have no other child: For thy escape would teach me tyranny’

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Desdemona

Act One Scene Three

‘I saw Othello’s…’

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Desdemona - ‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘to be free and…’

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Othello - ‘to be free and bounteous to her mind’

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Othello (about Iago)

Act One Scene Three

‘A man he is of…’

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Othello (about Iago) - ‘A man he is of honesty and trust’

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The Duke of Venice

Act One Scene Three

‘noble signior, If virtue no delighted…’

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Duke - ‘noble signior, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black’

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First Senator

Act One Scene Three

‘Adieu, brave Moor…’

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First Senator - ‘Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well’

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Brabantio

Act One Scene Three

‘Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see…’

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Brabantio - ‘Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee.’

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Othello

Act One Scene Three

‘My life upon…’

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Othello - ‘My life upon her faith!’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘Our bodies are our gardens…’

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Iago - ‘Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

love is ‘merely a lust of the…’

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Iago - love is ‘merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘Put money…’

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Iago - ‘Put money in thy purse’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘These Moors are…’

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Iago - ‘These Moors are changeable in their wills’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘she will find the…’

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Iago - ‘she will find the error of her choice’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘Thus I do ever make…’

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Iago - ‘Thus I do ever make my fool my purse’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘And it is thought abroad…’

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Iago - ‘And it is thought abroad, that ‘twixt my sheets He has done my office’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘Cassio’s a…’

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Iago - ‘Cassio’s a proper man’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘will as tenderly be led by…’

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Iago - ‘will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are’

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Iago

Act One Scene Three

‘I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night…’

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Iago - ‘I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light’

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The Duke of Venice (to Othello)

Act One Scene Three

‘What, in your own..’

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The Duke (to Othello) - ‘What, in your own part, can you say to this?’

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The Duke of Venice

Act One Scene Three

‘the bloody book…’

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The Duke - ‘the bloody book of law.’

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