Othello - Key Quotes Flashcards
“I am not what I am”
I 1/1
- “Even now, now, very now: an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe”.
I 1/1
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them”.
O1/3
“Virtue! A fig!”
I 1/3
“Tis in ourselves we are thus or thus”
I 1/3
‘our bodies are our gardens, to the which / our wills are gardeners’
I 1/3
Reputation, reputation, reputation!” “I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.’
C 2/3
‘so will I turn her virtue into pitch’
I 2/3
Takes 25 lines of interrogation to give an answer which is also then non-committal and tentative. He says, “I dare be sworn I think that he is honest”
I 3/3
‘Her name, that was as fresh / As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black / As mine own face’
O 3/3
“Witness you ever burning lights above”
I 3/3
‘Jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot on itself, born on itself.’
E 3/4
‘heaven me such uses send, / Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!’
D 4/3
“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: / she has deceived her father, and may thee”
Brab 1
‘a maid / That paragons description and wild fame’ & ‘the divine Desdemona’
C 2/1
[about Bianca] ‘Marry, a perfumed one’
C 4/1
‘I would do much / T’atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio’
D 4/1
[To Othello] ‘Or I shall say you’re all in spleen / And nothing of a man’
I 4/1
‘I took you for that cunning whore of Venice / That married with Othello.’
O 4/2
‘She had a song of willow; / An old thing ‘twas but it expressed her fortune, / And she died singing it.’
D 4/3
Contrast with conversation about adultery: Desdemona – ‘No, by this heavenly light.’ & Emilia, ‘I might do’t as well I’th dark.’
D E 4/3
‘Let husbands know / Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell, / And have their palates both for sweet and sour / As husbands have.’
E 4/3
‘Nobody; I myself. Farewell. / Commend me to my kind lord.’
D 5/2
‘Tis proper I obey him, but not now.’
E 5/2
‘An honourable murderer, if you will; / For naught did I in hate, but all in honour.’
O 5/2
‘Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk / Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, / I took by th’throat the circumsisèd dog / And smote him thus.’
O 5/2
