Flashcards
Othello Quotes
Cards in this deck (173)
- 1"I know my...""I know my price: I am worth no worse a place"
- Iago -
1:1 - 2"I follow him to...""I follow him to serve my turn upon him"
- Iago -
1:1 - 3"In following him...""In following him, I follow but myself"
- Iago -
1:1 - 4"Heaven is my...""Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty"
- Iago -
1:1 - 5"But I will wear...""But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
...I am not what I am"
- Iago -
1:1 - 6"An old black ram is...""An old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe"
- Iago -
1:1 - 7"Your daughter...are now...""Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs"
- Iago -
1:1 - 8"To the gross...""To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor"
- Rodrigo -
1:1 - 9"This accident is...""This accident is not unlike my dream"
- Brabantio -
1:1 - 10"Light...""Light, I say, light!"
- Brabantio -
1:1 - 11"O treason of...""O treason of the blood"
- Brabantio -
1:1 - 12"Are you fast...""Are you fast married?"
- Iago -
1:2 - 13"'Tis better...""'Tis better as it is"
- Othello -
1:2 - 14"I love the...""I love the gentle Desdemona"
- Othello -
1:2 - 15"My...my...and my...""My parts, my title and my perfect soul
Shall manifest me rightly"
- Othello -
1:2 - 16"My services...""My services...
Shall out-tongue his complaints"
- Othello -
1:2 - 17"By... I think...""By Janus I think no"
- Iago -
1:2 - 18"The goodness of...""The goodness of the night upon you"
- Othello -
1:2 - 19(Iago interrupted)"Marry to - Come, captain"
- Iago -
1:2 - 20"Keep up your bright...""Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"
- Othello -
1:2 - 21"Good signior, you shall more...""Good signior, you shall more command with years
Than with weapons"
- Othello -
1:2 - 22"O thou..." (Brabantio accusing Othello)"O thou foul thief"
- Brabantio -
1:2 - 23"Damned as thou...""Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her"
- Brabantio -
1:2 - 24"Abused her...""Abused her delicate youth"
- Brabantio -
1:2 - 25"Were it my cue to...""Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter"
- Othello -
1:2 - 26(Duke of Venice addressing Othello)"Valiant Othello"
- Duke of Venice -
1:3 - 27(Othello addressing the Duke of Venice)"gentle signior"
- Othello -
1:3 - 28"my particular grief...""my particular grief...
engluts and swallows other sorrows"
- Brabantio -
1:3 - 29"She is abused...""She is abused, stol'n from me and corrupted"
- Brabantio -
1:3 - 30"I won...""I won his daughter"
- Othello -
1:3 - 31"my...hence""my redemption hence"
- Othello -
1:3 - 32"let her speak...""let her speak of me before her father"
- Othello -
1:3 - 33"Rude am I...""Rude am I in my speech,
And little blest with the soft phrase of peace"
- Othello -
1:3 - 34"To fall in love...""To fall in love with what she feared to look on?"
- Brabantio -
1:3 - 35"with a greedy...""with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse"
- Othello -
1:3 - 36"I do perceive...""I do perceive here a divided duty"
- Desdemona -
1:3 - 37"You are the..." (Addressing her father)"You are the Lord of duty"
- Desdemona -
1:3 - 38"That the bruised...""That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear"
- Desdemona -
1:3 - 39(Desdemona elevating Othello physically and echoing his own assessment of himself)"his valiant parts"
- Desdemona -
1:3 - 40(compared to Othello, Desdemona refers to herself as a...)"Moth of peace"
- Desdemona -
1:3 - 41"A man... (Iago)""A man he is of honesty and trust"
- Othello -
1:3 - 42"If virtue no delighted...""If virtue no delighted beauty lack
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black"
- Duke of Venice -
1:3 - 43"Look to her Moor...""Look to her Moor, if thou hast the eyes to see:
She has deceived her father, and may thee"
- Brabantio -
1:3 - 44(In response to Brabantio's warning of Desdemona's faith)"My life upon her faith"
- Othello -
1:3 - 45"we must obey...""we must obey the time"
- Othello -
1:3 - 46"we a prescription to...""we a prescription to die, when death is our physician"
- Rodrigo -
1:3 - 47"the blood and baseness of...""the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions"
- Iago -
1:3 - 48"when she is sated...""when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice"
- Iago -
1:3 - 49(Iago's truthful declaration of Othello to Rodrigo)"I hate the Moor"
- Iago -
1:3 - 50"abuse Othello's...""abuse Othello's ears"
- Iago -
1:3 - 51"Hell and night...""Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light"
- Iago -
1:3 - 52(In reply to being asked "What from the cape can you discern at sea?" - Montanto)"It is nothing"
- Gentleman 1 -
2:1 - 53(Montano's opinion of Othello as governor of Cyprus)"I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor"
- Montano -
2:1 - 54"As to throw out our...""As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello"
- Montano -
2:1 - 55"O, let the heavens...""O, let the heavens
Give him defence against the elements
For I have lost him on a dangerous sea"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 56"That paragons...""That paragons description and wild fame"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 57"And in th'essential...""And in th'essential vesture of creation
Does tire the ingener"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 58"Traitors insteeped...""Traitors insteeped to clog the guiltless keel"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 59"... Desdemona""divine Desdemona"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 60"Great Jove, Othello...""Great Jove, Othello guard
And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 61"may bless...""may bless this bay"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 62"let her have...""let her have your knees"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 63"I thank you, valiant...""I thank you, valiant Cassio,
What tidings can you tell me of my Lord?"
- Desdemona -
2:1 - 64"'tis my breeding...""'tis my breeding
That gives me this bold show of courtesy"
- Cassio -
2:1 - 65"housewives in...""housewives in
Your beds"
- Iago -
2:1 - 66"You rise to...and...""You rise to play, and go to bed to work"
- Iago -
2:1 - 67"For I am nothing...""For I am nothing if not critical"
- Iago -
2:1 - 68"She that could think...""She that could think, and ne'er disclose her mind"
- Iago -
2:1 - 69"She that, being angered...""She that, being angered, her revenge being nigh
Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly"
- Iago -
2:1 - 70"Is he not a...(Of Iago)""Is he not a most profane and liberal counsellor?"
- Desdemona -
2:1 - 71"He takes her by...""He takes her by the palm"
- Iago -
2:1 - 72"With as little a web...""With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio"
- Iago -
2:1 - 73"O my...(To Desdemona)""Oh my fair warrior"
- Othello -
2:1 - 74"O my soul's...""O my soul's joy"
- Othello -
2:1 - 75"If it were now to die...""If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy"
- Othello -
2:1 - 76"The heavens forbid But...""The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow"
- Desdemona -
2:1 - 77"I cannot speak enough...""I cannot speak enough of this content"
- Othello -
2:1 - 78"O, you are well tuned now...""O, you are well tuned now; but I'll set down the pegs that make this music, as 'honest' as I am"
- Iago -
2:1 - 79"good...""good Iago"
- Othello -
2:1 - 80"I dote...""I dote
In mine own comforts"
- Othello -
2:1 - 81"Lay thy finger thus, and...""Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed"
- Iago -
2:1 - 82"Her eye must be...""Her eye must be fed; and what delight shall she have to look on the devil"
- Iago -
2:1 - 83"manners and beauties...""manners and beauties: all which the Moor is defective in"
- Iago -
2:1 - 84"her delicate tenderness...and abhor the...""her delicate tenderness will find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor"
- Iago -
2:1 - 85"If she had been blest...""If she had been blest, she could never have loved the Moor"
- Iago -
2:1 - 86"their breaths...""their breaths embraced together"
- Iago -
2:1 - 87"The Moor...Is of a constant...""The Moor (howbeit that I endure him not)
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature"
- Iago -
2:1 - 88"that I put the Moor...""that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgement cannot cure"
- Iago -
2:1 - 89"practising upon his...""practising upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness"
- Iago -
2:1 - 90(The herald says in Act 2 Scene 2 of Othello)"Heaven bless...our noble general Othello"
- Herald -
2:2 - 91"she is sport...""she is sport for Jove"
- Iago -
2:3 - 92"Indeed she's a most...""Indeed she's a most fresh and delicate creature"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 93"What an eye...""What an eye she has! Methinks it sounds a parley to provocation"
- Iago -
2:3 - 94"I hope... (Cassio to Iago)""I hope to be saved"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 95"I fear, the...""I fear, the trust Othello puts him in"
- Iago -
2:3 - 96"Prizes the virtue...""Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio
And looks not on his evil"
- Montano -
2:3 - 97"A knave teach...""A knave teach me my duty"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 98"Hold...(To Cassio, Iago and Montano)""Hold, for you lives"
- Othello -
2:3 - 99"Are we turned Turks...""Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that
Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites"
- Othello -
2:3 - 100"He that stirs next...""He that stirs next...
Holds his soul light: he dies upon his motion"
2:3 - 101"Honest...""Honest Iago"
- Othello / Cassio -
2:3 - 102"the best of you...""the best of you
Shall sink in my rebuke"
- Othello -
2:3 - 103"Shall...(when Montano and Cassio are brawling)"Shall lose me"
- Othello -
2:3 - 104"men are...""men are men"
- Iago -
2:3 - 105"Thy honestly and...""Thy honestly and love doth mince this matter"
- Othello -
2:3 - 106"Reputation...""Reputation, reputation, reputation!"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 107"I have lost the...""I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 108"You are but now...""You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice"
- Iago -
2:3 - 109"one unperfectness...""one unperfectness shows me another"
- Cassio -
2:3 - 110"I'll tell you what...""I'll tell you what you should do"
- Iago -
2:3 - 111"This broken joint between...""This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter"
- Iago -
2:3 - 112"this crack of your love...""this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before"
- Iago -
2:3 - 113"How am I..."""How am I then a villain"
- Iago -
2:3 - 114"Divinity of...""Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on"
- Iago -
2:3 - 115"I'll pour this...""I'll pour this pestilence into ear"
- Iago -
2:3 - 116"out of her own goodness...""out of her own goodness make the not
That shall enmesh them all"
- Iago -
2:3 - 117"What wound did...""What wound did ever heal but by degrees"
- Iago -
2:3 - 118"I warrant it...""I warrant it grieves my husband"
- Emilia -
3:3 - 119"I will have my...""I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were."
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 120(Desdemona's response to Cassio's assurance that he was "never anything but your true servant")"I know't"
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 121"I'll watch...(Desdemona assuring Cassio of her control over Othello)""I'll watch him tame"
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 122"I'll intermingle...""I'll intermingle everything he does
With Cassio's suit"
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 123"For thy solicitor...""For thy solicitor shall rather die
Than give thy cause away"
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 124"I am very...(Cassio's response to Othello seeing Cassio with Desde.)""I am very ill at ease"
- Cassio -
3:3 - 125"I cannot think it, That he would...""I cannot think it
That he would steal away so guilty-like,
Seeing you coming"
- Iago -
3:3 - 126"a suitor here A man...""a suitor here
A man that languishes in your displeasure"
- Desdemona -
3:3 - 127"The sooner, sweet...""The sooner, sweet, for you."
- Othello -
3:3 - 128"Prithee, no more...""Prithee, no more. Let him come when he will
I will deny thee nothing"
- Othello -
3:3 - 129"But I do love...and when...""But I do love thee; and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again."
- Othello -
3:3 - 130"Did Michael Cassio... Know...""Did Michael Cassio...
Know of your love?"
- Iago -
3:3 - 131"Bu for a satisfaction of...""But for a satisfaction of my thought
No further harm."
- Iago -
3:3 - 132"What dost...(Othello querying Iago on the initial doubts that he has of Desde.'s infidelity.)""What dost thou think?"
- Othello -
3:3 - 133"thou echo's me, As if...""thou echo's me
As if there were some monster in thy thought
Too hideous to be shown"
- Othello -
3:3 - 134"As if thou then hadst shut...""As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit"
- Othello -
3:3 - 135"weigh'st thy words...""weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath"
- Othello -
3:3 - 136"but in a man that's just...""but in a man that's just
...working from the heart
That passion cannot rule"
- Othello -
3:3 - 137"Men should be...""Men should be what they seem"
- Iago -
3:3 - 138"give thy worst of...""give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words"
- Othello -
3:3 - 139"I perchance am vicious in...""I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As, I confess, is my nature's plague"
- Iago -
3:3 - 140"oft my jealousy...""oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not"
- Iago -
3:3 - 141"O beware, my lord, of...""O beware, my lord, of jealousy.
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
That meat it feeds on."
- Iago -
3:3 - 142"Exchange me for...""Exchange me for a goat"
- Othello -
3:3 - 143"from mine own weak...""from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt"
- Othello -
3:3 - 144"For she had...""For she had eyes and chose me"
- Othello -
3:3 - 145"I'll see before...""I'll see before I doubt"
- Othello -
3:3 - 146"Away at once with...""Away at once with love or jealousy!"
- Othello -
3:3 - 147"Look to your...""Look to your wife; observe her well"
- Iago -
3:3 - 148"I would not have your free...""I would not have your free and noble nature
...be abused"
- Iago -
3:3 - 149"To seel her father's...""To seel her father's eyes up closed as oak"
- Iago -
3:3 - 150"how nature...""how nature erring from itself"
- Othello -
3:3 - 151"Fear not my...""Fear not my government"
- Othello -
3:3 - 152"She's gone; I am...""She's gone; I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loath her"
- Othello -
3:3 - 153"That we can call these...""That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites!"
- Othello -
3:3 - 154"'Tis destiny...""'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death"
- Othello -
3:3 - 155"If she be false...""If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself!"
- Othello -
3:3 - 156(Othello's response to Desde.'s offer to help him with his headache)"Your napkin is too little"
- Othello -
3:3 - 157"What will he do with...(Emilia talking about Iago)""What will he do with it,
Heaven knows, not I"
- Emilia -
3:3 - 158"but to please...(Emilia of Iago)""but to please his fantasy"
- Emilia -
3:3 - 159"Trifles light as air Are...""Trifles light as air
Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ"
- Iago -
3:3 - 160"The Moor already...""The Moor already changes with my poison"
- Iago -
3:3 - 161"Shall ever medicine thee to...""Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday"
- Iago -
3:3 - 162"Farewell the...""Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content"
- Othello -
3:3 - 163"Othello's...(after Othello says "Th'immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit)""Othello's occupation's one!"
- Othello -
3:3 - 164"give me the...(Othello to Iago in convincing himself of Desde.'s deception)""give me the ocular proof"
- Othello -
3:3 - 165"the worth of mine eternal...""the worth of mine eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!"
- Othello -
3:3 - 166"Have you a...or...""Have you a soul, or sense?"
- Iago -
3:3 - 167"honesty's a...""honesty's a fool,
And loses that it works for"
- Iago -
3:3 - 168"Her name, that was as...""Her name, that was as fresh
As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
As mine own face"
- Othello -
3:3 - 169"A kind of men so...""A kind of men so loose of soul
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs"
- Iago -
3:3 - 170"Nay, this was but...""Nay, this was but his dream"
- Iago -
3:3 - 171"such a....(Iago incriminating Cassio in the abduction of Othello's handkerchief and so providing "ocular proof")""such a handkerchief
...did I today
See Cassio wipe his beard with"
- Iago -
3:3 - 172"my bloody thoughts... ne'er ebb to...""my bloody thoughts...
ne'er to ebb to humble love
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up"
- Othello -
3:3 - 173"To furnish me with...""To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil"
- Othello -
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- AS - Level English Literature - Othello Flashcards on Othello Quotes, created by Leon Hughes on 10/03/2016.
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