Othello character quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Cassio
6 quotes
A
- The riches of the ship, let her have your knees
- Reputation reputation reputation! I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself
- My general will forget my love and service
- I have never met a Florentine more kind and honest
- I have made bold Iago, to send in your wife
- I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking
2
Q
Brabantio
5 quotes
A
- a maiden never bold
- abused her delicate youth with drugs
- against all rules of nature
- she hath deceived her father and may thee
- the match was mortal for him
3
Q
Emilia
8 quotes
A
- My wayward husband hath wood me to steal it a hundred times
- I do nothing but please his fancy
- my poor lady, she’ll run mad
- they’re all stomachs, and when they are full they belch us
- I’ll be hanged if some eternal villain
- thou art a devil
- the worlds a huge place, it’s a small price for a huge vice
- tis proper I obey you, but not now
4
Q
Rodrigo
5 quotes
A
- I confess it is my fault to be so fond
- I follow here, not like the hound that hunts but one that fills in the cry
- I hath tonight been exceedingly well cudgelled
- O dammed iago, o inhumane dog
•commedia dell arte = foolish lover
5
Q
Iago
15 quotes
A
- I am not what I am
- I follow but myself
- poison his delights, plague him with flies
- pour pestilence into his ears
- beware of jealously my lord, the green eyed monster
- they are well tuned now, but I’ll bring down the pegs
- ensnare a great fly as Cassio
- But seeming so, for my peculiar end
- the gallants desire it
- do not rise yet
- my lord, you know I love you
- I bleed sir, but not killed
- I told him what I thought and nothing more
- I’ll never speak again
- work on my medicine, work
6
Q
Desdemona
11 quotes
A
- she wishd heaven had made her such a man
- I do perceive her a divided duty
- but here’s my husband
- my dear othello
- why then tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn, or Tuesday noon
- why do u speak startlingly and rash ?
- my lord is not my lord
- I have not deserved this
- your wife my lord your true and loyal wife
- upon my knees
- a guiltless death I die
7
Q
Othello
12 quotes
A
- I love thee gentle desdemona
- my gentle warrior
- my parts, my title, and my perfect soul
- keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them
- but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again
- men should be what they seem
- haply for I am black
- as summer files are in the shambles
- I will chop her into messes!
- as smooth as monumental alabaster
- an honourable murderer if you will
- of one that loved not wisely but too well
8
Q
Extra characters
Bianca, Lodovico, montano
A
Bianca: as honest as you that abuse me
Let the devil and his doom haunt u
Lodovico: I am sorry that I am deceived in him
This heavy act with heavy heart relate (end)
Montano: ‘tis a notorious villain!
O monstrous act!
