Othello: Key quotes

Question 1

Iago: ‘O, beware, my Lord…

Answer 1

‘O, beware, my lord of jealousy! It is the green=eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’ (famous metaphor, ironically its Iago)

Question 2

Emilia: ‘Jealous souls will not be answered…

Answer 2

‘Jealous souls will not be answered so. They’re not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself’

Question 3

Iago: ‘but partly led to diet…

Answer 3

‘but partly led to diet my revenge for that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat’

Question 4

Iago: ‘in my personal…

Answer 4

‘In my personal pursuit to make me his lieutenant’

Question 5

Iago: ‘We cannot…

Answer 5

‘We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed’

Question 6

Iago: ‘Rouse him…

Answer 6

‘Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight..plague him with flies’

Question 7

Iago: ‘Zounds, sir…

Answer 7

‘Zounds, sir, you’re robbed: for shame’

Question 8

Iago: ‘an old black…

Answer 8

‘an old black ram is tupping your white ewe!’

Question 9

Iago: ‘your daughter and the Moor…

Answer 9

‘your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs’

Question 10

Brabantio: ‘Thou art…

Answer 10

‘Thou art a villian’

Question 11

Iago: ‘Are you…

Answer 11

‘Are you fast married?’

Question 12

Othello: ‘My parts…

Answer 12

‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul’

Question 13

Brabantio: ‘thou foul thief…

Answer 13

‘thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter?’ ‘enchanted her’

Question 14

Brabantio: ‘practised on her…

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 14

‘practised on her with foul charms’ ‘an abuser of the world, a practices of arts’.

Question 15

Senator 1: ‘Brabantio and…

Answer 15

‘Brabantio and the valiant Moor’

Question 16

Brabantio: ‘she is abused…

Act 1 scene 3

Answer 16

‘she is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks’

Question 17

Othello: ‘I won…

Answer 17

‘I won his daughter’

Question 18

Brabantio: ‘to fall in love…

Answer 18

‘to fall in love with what she feared to look on?’

Question 19

Othello: ‘the Anthropophagi…

Answer 19

‘the Anthropophagi, and men who’s heads do grow beneath their shoulders’

Question 20

Othello: ‘this is the only…

Answer 20

‘this is the only witchcraft I have used’

Question 21

Desdem: ‘here’s my husband;…

Answer 21

here’s my husband; And so much duty my mother showed’

Question 22

Brabantio: ‘that nothing bears…

Answer 22

‘that nothing bears but the free comfort which from thence he hears’

Question 23

Iago: ‘virtue?…

Answer 23

‘Virtue? a fig!’

Question 24

Iago: ‘These Moors are…

Answer 24

‘These Moors are changeable in their wills’

Question 25

Iago: 'Fill...

Answer 25

'Fill they purse with money'

Question 26

Iago: 'thought abroad that...

Answer 26

'Thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets he's done my office'

Question 27

Iago: 'Hell and night...

Answer 27

'Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light'

Question 28

Cassio: 'our great...

Answer 28

'our great captain's captain'

Question 29

Cassio: 'you may relish...

Answer 29

'you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar'

Question 30

Othello: 'O my fair...

Answer 30

'O my fair warrior!'

Question 31

Iago: 'her delicate...

Answer 31

'her delicate tenderness will find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor'

Question 32

Iago: ''Blest figs-end...

Answer 32

'Blest figs-end! The wine she drinks is made of grapes'

Question 33

Iago: 'a shorter...

Answer 33

'a shorter journey to your desires'

Question 34

Iago: 'wife...

Answer 34

'wife for wife'

Question 35

Iago: 'Cassio loves...

Answer 35

'Cassio loves her, I do well believe't; That she loves him'

Question 36

Iago: 'at least into...

Answer 36

'at least into jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure'

Question 37

Othello: 'Iago is...

Answer 37

'Iago is most honest'

Question 38

Iago: 'Our bodies are...

Answer 38

'Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners' (metaphor, gardeners have choice of what to grow)

Question 39

Iago: 'The food that to...

Answer 39

'The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida' (metaphor, coloquintida is a bitter laxative)

Question 40

Iago: 'There are many events...

Answer 40

'there are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered' (metaphor)

Question 41

Iago: 'Hath leaped into my seat...

Answer 41

'Hath leaped into my seat. The thought whereof | Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inward' (euphemism)

Question 42

Iago: 'You are but now cast in his mood...

Answer 42

'You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenseless dog to affright an imperious lion' (Iago says what want to here, mischievous)

Question 43

Iago 'Who steals my purse steals trash. 'Tis something, nothing...

Answer 43

Who steals my purse steals trash. 'Tis something, nothing: 'Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed' (extended metaphor, saying reputation to a precious jewel that unlike money is worthless to anyone who steals it)

Question 44

Othello: 'Oh, ay, as summer...

Answer 44

'Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing.' (sarcastically tells des he thinks she honest like flies in a slaughter house: simply blow on them and they fly away)

Question 45

Othello: 'Yet I’ll not shed her blood...

Answer 45

'Yet I’ll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster' (comparing witness des skin to snow and alabaster (mineral) and thus stains her witness with blood'

Question 46

Emilia: 'they are all but...

Answer 46

'they are all but stomachs, and we al but food...' | Act 3, scene 4

Question 47

Emilia: 'And have their...

Answer 47

'And have their palates for both sweet and sour' | Act 4, Scene 3