Othello

Question 1

Naked in bed, iago, and not mean harm?It is hypocrisy against the devil

Answer 1

Othello

Question 2

her honour is an essence that’s not seen: they have it very oft that have it not

Answer 2

Iago

Question 3

They that mean virtuously and yet do so the devil their tempts and they tempt heaven

Answer 3

Othello

Question 4

Lie with her? Lie on her? We say “lie on her”
when they belie her. Lie with her—Zounds, that’s
fulsome! Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief.

Answer 4

Othello

Question 5

First to be hanged and then to confess—I tremble
at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
passion without some instruction. It is not
words that shakes me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and
lips—is ’t possible? Confess—handkerchief

Answer 5

Othello

Question 6

The lethargy must have his quiet course.
If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs

Answer 6

Iago

Question 7

There’s many a beast, then, in a populous city,
And many a civil monster.

Answer 7

Othello

Question 8

Good sir, be a man!
Think every bearded fellow that’s but yoked
May draw with you. There’s millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds

Answer 8

Iago

Question 9

Good sir, be a man!
Think every bearded fellow that’s but yoked
May draw with you. There’s millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds

Answer 9

Iago

Question 10

Which they dare swear peculiar. Your case is better.
O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock,
To lip a wanton in a secure couch
And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know,
And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.

Answer 10

Iago

Question 11

Alas, alas!
It is not honesty in me to speak
What I have seen and known. You shall observe
him,

Answer 11

Iago

Question 12

Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?

Answer 12

Lodovico

Question 12

He’s that he is. I may not breathe my censure
What he might be. If what he might he is not,
I would to heaven he were.

Answer 12

Iago

Question 13

Is it his use?
Or did the letters work upon his blood
And new-create this fault?

Answer 13

Lodovico

Question 14

Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake, whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?

Answer 14

Lodovico

Question 15

Ay, you did wish that I would make her turn.
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again. And she can weep, sir, weep.
And she’s obedient, as you say, obedient.

Answer 15

Othello

Question 16

Proceed you in your tears.—
Concerning this, sir—O, well-painted passion!—
I am commanded home.—Get you away.
I’ll send for you anon.—Sir, I obey the mandate
And will return to Venice.—Hence, avaunt!

Answer 16

Othello

Question 17

Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight
I do entreat that we may sup together.
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and
monkeys!

Answer 17

Othello

Question 18

My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw ’t. ’Tis very much.
Make her amends. She weeps.

Answer 18

Lodovico

Question 19

A most unhappy one. I would do much
T’ atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.

Answer 19

Desdemona

Question 20

Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord
An unkind breach, but you shall make all well.

Answer 20

Desdemona

Question 21

Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed,
even the bed she hath contaminated.

Answer 21

Iago

Question 22

Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I’ll not
expostulate with her lest her body and beauty
unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago.

Answer 22

Othello

Question 23

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her
patent to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes
near nobody.

Answer 23

Iago

Question 24

Hang her, I do but say what she is! So delicate with her needle, an admirable musician—

Answer 24

Othello

Question 25

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! Of so high and plenteous wit and invention!

Answer 25

Othello

Question 26

O, the world hath not a sweeter creature! She might lie by an emperor’s side and command him tasks.

Answer 26

Otheelo

Question 27

Tis such another fitchew—marry, a perfumed one!—What do you mean by this haunting of me?

Answer 27

Cassio

Question 28

Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?

Answer 28

Bianca

Question 29

This is some minx’s token, and I must take out the work! There, give it your hobbyhorse. Wheresoever you had it, I’ll take out no work on ’t.

Answer 29

Bianca

Question 30

If I had said I had seen him do you wrong? Or heard him say (as knaves be such abroad, Who having, by their own importunate suit Or voluntary dotage of some mistress, Convincèd or supplied them,

Answer 30

iago

Question 31

My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught, And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach.—What ho! My lord!

Answer 31

iago

Question 32

The lethargy must have his quiet course. If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by Breaks out to savage madness.

Answer 32

iago

Question 33

Look, he stirs. Do you withdraw yourself a little while. He will recover straight. When he is gone, I would on great occasion speak with you.

Answer 33

iago

Question 34

O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a secure couch And to suppose her chaste!

Answer 34

iago

Question 35

Confine yourself but in a patient list. Whilst you were here, o’erwhelmèd with your grief— A passion most unsuiting such a man— Cassio came hither. I shifted him away

Answer 35

iago

Question 36

Confine yourself but in a patient list. Whilst you were here, o’erwhelmèd with your grief— A passion most unsuiting such a man— Cassio came hither. I shifted him away

Answer 36

iago

Question 37

laid good ’scuses upon your ecstasy, Bade him anon return and here speak with me, The which he promised. Do but encave yourself, And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns That dwell in every region of his face.

Answer 37

iago

Question 38

Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when He hath and is again to cope your wife. I say but mark his gesture. Marry, patience, Or I shall say you’re all in all in spleen, And nothing of a man.

Answer 38

iago

Question 39

Now will I question Cassio of Bianca, A huswife that by selling her desires Buys herself bread and clothes. It is a creature That dotes on Cassio—as ’tis the strumpet’s plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one. He, when he hears of her, cannot restrain From the excess of laughter.

Answer 39

iago

Question 40

As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad, And his unbookish jealousy must construe Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviors Quite in the wrong.

Answer 40

Iago

Question 41

Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on ’t. Now, if this suit lay in Bianca’s power, How quickly should you speed!

Answer 41

iago