othello quotes Flashcards
“she loved me for the ……. I had passed, and I loved her that she did …. them.”
“she loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.” (1.3) Othello
“I know, Iago Thy …… and love doth …….. this matter.”
“I know, Iago Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.” (2.3) Othello
“I ……. speak to me as to thy ……….”
“I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings.” (3.3) Othello
“No, Iago, I’ll ….. before I …….”
“No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt” (3.3) Othello
“Even so my …….. thoughts with violent pace Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to ……… love.”
“Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love.” (3.3) Othello
“Therefore he be ……. damned: Swear thou art ……..”
“Therefore he be double damned: Swear thou art honest.” (4.2) Othello
“Then must you speak Of one that …… not …… but too well.”
“Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well.” (5.2) Othello
“I do perceive here a …… duty.”
“I do perceive here a divided duty.” (1.3) Desdemona
“Do not doubt, …… But I will have my lord and you again As ……. as you were.”
“Do not doubt, Cassio, But I will have my lord and you again As friendly as you were.” (3.3) Desdemona
“His …… may defeat my life But never taint my love.”
“His unkindness may defeat my life But never taint my love.” (4.2) Desdemona
“…… me if I do such a wrong For the whole world.”
“Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong For the whole world.” (4.3) Desdemona
“…… me tomorrow; let me …… tonight.”
“Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight.” (5.2) Desdemona
“I follow him to …… my …… upon him.”
“I follow him to turn my serve upon him.” (1.1) Iago
“If thou canst …….. him, thou dost thyself a ……., me a ……”
“If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.” (1.3) Iago
“It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets He’s done my …….”
“It is thought that ‘twixt my sheets He’s done my office.” (1.3) Iago
“She did ……… her father, marrying you.”
“She did deceive her father, marrying you.” (3.3) Iago
“……… her in bed, even the bed she hath ………”
“Strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.”(4.1) Iago
“Tis my breeding That gives me this bold show of ……..”
“Tis my breeding That gives me this bold show of courtesy.” (2.1) Cassio
“An …….. eye - and yet methinks right modest.”
“An inviting eye - and yet methinks right modest.” (2.3) Cassio
“I have very poor and …….. ……. for drinking.”
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.” (2.3) Cassio
“Oh, I have lost my ………! I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is …….”
“Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial.” (2.3) Cassio
“What he will do with it ……. …….., not I.”
“What he will do with it Heaven knows, not I.” (3.3) Emilia
“Tis not a year or two shows us a ….”
“Tis not a year or two shows us a man.” (3.4) Emilia
“They are not ever …… for the cause But ……. for they’re ………”
“They are not ever jealous for the cause But jealous for they’re jealous.” (3.4) Emilia
“If any …….. have put this in your head Let heaven requite it with the ……… curse.”
“If any wretch have put this in your head Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse.” (4.2) Emilia
“I am …… …. ….. am”
“I am not what I am” (1.1) appearance vs reality (Iago)
“The …….. is of a free and open nature
That thinks men …….. that but seem to be so,
And will as …….. be led by th’ nose
As asses are.”
“The Moor is of a free and open nature
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by th’ nose
As asses are.” (1.3) appearance vs reality (Iago)
“Men should be …. …. ….,
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!”
“Men should be what they seem,
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!” appearance vs reality, (Iago)
“And, good lieutenant, I think you think I …. you”
“And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.” deception and treachery, (Iago)
“So I will turn her …… into pitch And out of her own goodness make the net that shall …… them all.”
“So I will turn her virtue into pitch And out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.” deception and treachery, (Iago)
“My lord, I would I might entreat your ….. to scan this thing no farther. Leave it to ….”
“My lord, I would I might entreat your honour to scan this thing no farther. Leave it to time.” timing, (Iago)
“Oh, beware, my lord, of ……..! It is the ….. ….. …… which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” jealousy, (Iago)
“……… light as air are to the …….. confirmations strong as proof of holy writ.”
“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proof of holy writ.” jealousy, (Iago)
“But ….. souls will not be answered for, They are not ever jealous for the ….., But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a …….. begot upon itself, born on itself.”
“But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.” jealousy, (Emilia)
“Give me the ……. proof, Or, - thou hadst been better have been born a dog than answer my …… wrath.”
“Give me the ocular proof, Or - thou hadst been better have been born a dog than answer my waked wrath.” justice, (Othello)
“you’ll have your daughter covered with a ……… ……. You’ll have your nephews neigh to you.”
“you’ll have your
daughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have
your nephews neigh to you.” (Iago act 1)
“thou hast ……….. her,
For I’ll refer me to all things of sense,
If she in chains of ……. were not bound”
“thou hast enchanted her,
For I’ll refer me to all things of sense,
If she in chains of magic were not bound” (Brabantio)
“Your son-in-law is far more …. than …..”
“Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.” (Duke)
“A …….. knave.”
“A devilish knave” (Iago, 1.3 referring to Desdemona)
“…… …… ……! Oh, I have lost my ……….”
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation.”
“When devils will the ……… sins put on, They do suggest at first with …….. shows, As I do now.”
“When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now.” (Iago, 2.3)
“No, Iago, I’ll see before I ……”
“No, Iago,
I’ll see before I doubt.” (Othello (3.3)
“I think my wife be …… and think she not, I think that thou art …… and think thou art not.”
“I think my wife be honest and think she is not.
I think that thou art just and think thou art not.” Othello (3.3)
“Her name that was as fresh as ……. visage, is now begrimed and ……”
“Her name that was as fresh as Diane’s visage, is now begrimed and black.” (Othello, 3.3)
“I’ll ….. her to pieces”
“I’ll tear her to pieces.” (Othello, 3.3)
“Like to the ……. sea.”
“Like to the Pontic sea.” (Othello, 3.3)
“Now art thou my lieutenant. - I am your … ……..”
“Now art thou my lieutenant. - I am your own forever.”
“That ……… did an Egyptian to my mother give.”
“That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give.” (Othello, 3.4)
“But if she lost it, or made …. of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathed and his …… should hunt after new fancies”
“But if she lost it, or made gift of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathed and his spirit should hunt after new fancies.” (Othello, 3.4)
“My …. is not my ….”
“My lord is not my lord” (Desdemona, 3.4)
“I will chop her into ……! ….. me?”
“I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me?” (Othello, 4.1)
“For if she be not ……., ……., and ……,
There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
Is foul as slander.”
“For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives
Is foul as slander.” (Othello, 4.2)
“…….. truly knows that thou art false as ……….”
“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as Hell.” (4.2)
“My ….., My ……! What ……? I have no …….”
“My wife! My wife! What wife? I have no wife.” (Othello, 5.2)
“….. called for” Duke for Othello (1.2)
“hotly called for”
“foul ……” Brabantio on Othello (1.2)
“foul thief”
“if such actions may have ……. free - bondslaved and …… shall our statesman be” brabantio’s warning (1.2)
“if such actions may have passage free - bondslaved and pagans shall our statesmen be.”
“most potent, grave and …….. signiors” othello (1.3)
“most potent grave and reverend signiors”
“send for the ….. to the sagittary” othello (1.3)
“send for the lady to the sagittary”
“against all rules of …….” brabantio on othello and desdemona
“against all rules of nature”
“our great captain’s ………” cassio on desdemona (2.1)
“our great captain’s captain”
“bold show of ……..” cassio on kissing emilia’s hand (2.1)
“bold show of courtesy”
“rise to play and go to bed to …..” iago on women (2.1)
“rise to play and go to bed to work”
“fair ……” othello on desdemona (2.1)
“fair warrior”
“her …. must be fed” iago talking about desdemona (2.1)
“her eye must be fed”
“excellent ……..” othello on desdemona (3.3)
“excellent wretch”
desdemona will “never ……” helping cassio (3.3)
“never rest”
“men should be …. ….. …..” iago talking to othello (3.3)
“men should be what they seem” contrasts “i am not what i am” (1.1)
“Why did I ……?” othello on his relationship with desdemona (3.3)
“Why did I marry?”
“Must be to …… her” the next steps for othello (3.3)
“must be to loath her”
what song is sung in act 4 scene 3?
the willow song
“That there be women do ……. their husbands in such ….. kind?” desdemona talking to emilia about infidelity (4.3)
“that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?”
“Nor I neither by this …….. light. I might do’t as well i’th’………..” emilia on cheating (4.3)
“Nor I neither by this heavenly light. I might do’t as well i’th’dark”
“Who would not make her husband a ……. to make him a monarch?” emilia on infidelity (4.3)
“who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?”
“inhuman ….” roderigo to iago
“inhuman dog”
iago envies Cassio’s “daily …….” (5.1)
“daily beauty”
“cruel …..” emilia talking about othello as she dies (5.2)
“cruel moor”
“enter iago with a …….” (5.1)
“enter iago with a light” (irony)
“it is the ……., it is the ……, my soul” othello (5.2)
“it is the cause, it is the cause, my soul”
“smooth as monumental ………” othello talking about desdemona (5.2)
“smooth as monumental alabaster”
“Yet she must die, else she’ll …….. more men.” Othello on Desdemona (5.2)
“Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men”
“Amen”, “Heaven have mercy on me” “think on thy sins”: what do these religious quotes suggest? (5.2)
talk of religious imagery could suggest they are metaphorically floating between life and death, foreshadowing this will become a reality. the audience will now be aware of the severity of the situation (contemporaneous views on religion).
“I took by th’throat the …….. dog, and smote him, thus.” othello before killing himself (5.2)
“I took by th’throat the circumcised dog, and smote him, thus.”
“A …….. death I die” Desdemona to Emilia in death (5.2)
“A guiltless death I die”
“Commend me to my …. lord” Desdemona to Emilia in death (5.2)
“Commend me to my kind lord”
“precious …….” othello talking about iago
“precious villain”
“O ……… dog” Lodovico to Iago (5.2)
“O Spartan dog”
