Othello quotes Flashcards by Liam Burke

(Imagery) The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; ..

The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane

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(Imagery) The… hath so bang’d the Turk

desperate tempest

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(Foreshadowing) And prays the moor be safe; for they ?..

were parted with foul and violent tempest

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(Cassio describing Desdemona) Most fortunately: he hath achieved …

a maid that paragons description and wild fame; one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, and in the essential vestures of creation does tire the ingener

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(Imagery) Tempests themselves …

high seas, and howling winds, The gutter’d rocks and congregated sands

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(Cassio describing Desdemona/ Desdemona’s holiness) Hail to thee, lady…

and the grace of heaven

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(Iago’s Sexism/ role of women) you are ….

pictures out of doors, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds

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(Iago’s facile vernacular) Theses are old fond ….

paradoxes to make fools laugh I’ the alehouse

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(Desdemona on Iago’s profanity) Is he not a most….

profane and liberal counsellor

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(Cassio on Iago’s coarseness) He speaks home madam ..

You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) He takes her by the palm: ay, well said, whisper …

with as little a web as

this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) Ay, smile upon her, do…

I will

give you in your own courtesies

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(Iago’s aside showing malice and cunning) You say true; ;tis so, indeed..

if such

tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry

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(Othello’s
emotional
over-investment
in Desdemona) “O my soul’s joy!…

If after every tempest come such calms

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(Othello’s
emotional
over-investment
in Desdemona) As hells from heaven…

If it were now to die,Twere now

to be most happy

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(Iago’s malice &

cunning) “O, you are well tuned now …

But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music

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(Iago’s racism /
description of
lust) “Her eye must be fed; and what…

delight shall she have to look on the devil

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(Iago’s description

of insatiable lust)

Her eye must be fed/ When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite

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(Roderigo on
Desdemona’s
holiness) “she’s full of most…

blessed condition

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(Iago on Cassio) he is rash and…

very sudden in choler

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(Iago on Othello’s

nobility) howbeit that I endure him not…

Is of a constant, loving, noble nature

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(Iago’s fear of

Emilia’ infidelity) “For that I do suspect the…

lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat, the

thought whereof Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards”

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(Iago’s desire for

revenge) Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards……

And
nothing can or shall content my soul Till I am even’d with him, wife for
wife, Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor At least into a jealousy so
strong That judgment cannot cure.”

(Iago’s fear of

Emilia’ infidelity) For I fear Cassio…..

with my night-cap too

(Iago’s | improvisation) “Tis here, but yet confused...

Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used

(Description of | merry-making) each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him…All offices are open, and ...

there is full liberty of feasting from this present | hour of five till the bell have told eleven

(Othello trusts | Michael Cassio) “Good Michael...

look you to the guard to-night: Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”

(Iago’s coarse / | vulgar idiolect) “She [Desdemona] is sport for Jove....

I’ll warrant her full of game

(Cassio on | Desdemona) She is what ....

She is indeed perfection

(Cassio’s susceptibility to alcohol) I have very poor ....

and unhappy brains for drinking

(Iago’s jovial | manipulation) “What, man...

tis a night of revels: the gallants desire it

(Iago’s scheming) He'll be as full of quarrel and offence…

Now, mongst this | flock of drunkards, Am I to put our Cassio in some action

(Iago’s convivial | temptation) Song

“And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink. Some wine, boys!”

(Iago’s sporting | rivalry) I learned it [the drinking song] in England, where, indeed,....

they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing to your English.

(Cassio’s crapulence) Ay, but, by your leave, not before me...

the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient

(Cassio’s crapulence) sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business...

Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left: I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and speak well enough.”

(Iago slanders | Cassio to Montano) Tis [heavy drinking]...

evermore the prologue to his sleep

(Iago’s duplicity) Not I, for this fair island...

I do love Cassio well; and would do much To cure him of this evil

(Cassio’s drunken | rage) “Zounds, you rogue, you rascal....

rascal…let me go, sir, or I’ll knock you o’er the mazzard

(Othello’s Christian | virtue) “Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites.....

For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl

(Iago’s duplicity / | Othello’s trust) “Honest Iago, that look'st.....

dead with grieving

(Othello’s quick | temper / volatility) Now, by heaven, My blood begins....

my safer guides to rule; And passion, having my best judgment collied”

(Othello’s trust in | Iago) “I know, Iago...

Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, Making it light to Cassio

(Rashness) Cassio I love thee...

Cassio, I love thee But never more be officer of mine

(Humanity vs. | animality) “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O...

I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial

(Humanity vs. | animality) “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains...

that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts

(Iago’s cynicism / | amorality) come, you ...

Come, you are too severe a moraller

(Othello’s love for Desdemona is affecting his self- control) “Our general's wife...

is now the general

(Iago on Desdemona’s | kindness of heart) she is of so free, so kind, so apt....

so blessed a disposition, she holds it a | vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested

(Iago’s malice)“Divinity of hell...

When devils will the blackest sins put on, | They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now

(Iago’s | manipulation) “I'll pour this....

pestilence into his ear

(Iago’s manipulation) She shall undo her credit with the Moor...

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her | own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all

(Iago’s scheming) “Two things are to be done....

My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress

(Iago’s scheming) I'll set her on...

Myself the while to draw the Moor apart, | And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Soliciting his wife

(Iago’s | improvisation) “ay, that's the way....

Dull not device by coldness and delay

(Iago’s exploitation | of Roderigo) “My money is almost spent;

I have been to-night exceedingly well | cudgelled