Othello quotes Flashcards
(23 cards)
Othello’s jealousy
“I saw my handkerchief in (Cassio’s) hand”
“paddle with the palm of his hand”
“she must die else she’ll betray more men”
“I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him”- Desdemona
Iago jealousy quotes
“twixt my sheets he’s done my office”
“nothing shall content my soul till I am evened with him, wife for wife”
“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
Emilia jealousy quote
“jealous souls will not be answered so…they are not ever jealous for the cause but jealous for they’re jealous”
Emilia’s commitment to Desdemona
“I wager she is honest, lay down my soul at stake”
“lay me by my mistress’ side”
“oh the more angel she, and you the blacker devil”
“moor, she was chaste. She loved thee, cruel moor”
“this deed of thine is no more worthy heaven than thou wast worthy her”
Desdemona’s supposed deception
“she has deceived her father and may thee”- Brabantio
“she did deceive her father, marrying you”- Iago
Iago being two faced
“I hate the moor”
“my lord, you know I love you”
“I am not what I am”
“in following him, I follow but myself”
“thus do I ever make my fool purse” (deceiving Roderigo)
Othello’s initial positive perspective on marriage
“If after every tempest come such calms, may he winds blow”
“When I love thee not, chaos is come again”
“she loved me for the dangers I had passed”
“The divine Desdemona”
Othello’s perspective on marriage by the end
“you must speak of the one that loved not wisely but too well”
“O curse of marriage”
“My heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my hand”
“Let her rot and perish and be damned”
“My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife”
“I’ll tear her all to pieces”
“Striking her”
“he smothers her”
Desdemona’s divided duty between father and husband
“I am hitherto your daughter. But he is my husband”
“I do perceive here a divided duty”
Desdemona’s love for Othello
“his unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love”
“I never did offend you in my life, never loved Cassio”
Race
“Barbary horse”
“an old back ram is tupping your white ewe”
“blacker devil”
Othello’s insecurity in his race
“rude I am in speech, and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace”
“haply for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation”
Iago’s disrespect for Emilia
“good wench”
“foolish wife”
“Iago stabs his wife”
“nothing but to please his fantasy”(Emilia)
Cassio’s relationship with Bianca
“womaned”
“she haunts me in every place”
“what, keep a week away?”
Bianca defending herself
“I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you that thus abuse me”
Emilia being feministy
“I do think it is their husbands faults if wives do fall”
“they are all but stomachs and we are all but food; to eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us”
“let husbands know their wives have sense like them”
“the ills we do, their ills instruct us so
“I will not charm my tongue I am bound to speak”
Iago manipulating Othello
“my lord, you know I love you”
“the moor already changed with my poison”
“strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated”
Desdemona’s death
“kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight”
willow song
“a guiltless death I die”
“I’ll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow”
“I would not kill thy unprepared spirit”
Othello’s downfall
“Ocular proof”
“epilepsy”
“I’ll see before I doubt”
“farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content”
“thou (Iago) hast set me on the rack”
“speak of the one that loved not wisely but too well”
Iago’s view of Cassio
“arithmetician”
“mere prattle without practice”
“a florentine”
“knocking his brains out”- how he tells Roderigo to kill him
Othello’s nobility at the start
- “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”
- “the moor…is of a constant, loving, noble nature”
- “noble moor”
Foundations of Othello and Desdemona’s marriage
- “witchcraft” “spells”
- “I won his daughter”
- “she loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved that she did pity them”
Bianca’s jealousy
“some token from a newer friend”
“let the devil and his dam haunt you”
