Summary Key quotes from 'Othello' to help with tragedy revision for English Literature B
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Aspects of Tragedy
Institution
AQA
A very extensive list of significant quotes from Othello. Can be used to help guide plot revision. Covers every Act and also labels where each quote is from. Can be printed out and usefully highlighted.
Tush! I take it much unkindly that thou Iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine shouldst
know of this - Roderigo
Sblood! - Iago
‘Certes’ he said ‘I have already chose my officer’ and what was he ? … a great arithmetician, one Michael
Cassio, a Florentine - Iago being bitter over Cassio’s promotion
A bookish theoric/ never set a squadron in the field/ mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership –
Iago describing Cassio
And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship’s ancient -Iago
Preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation - Iago
I would not follow him then - Roderigo
I follow him to serve my turn upon him -Iago
Nor all masters cannot truly be followed - Iago
In following him I follow but myself - Iago
I am not what I am - Iago
What full fortune does the thicklips owe – Roderigo talking about Othello
Call up her father. Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight... plague him with flies - Iago ordering
Roderigo to awake Brabantio
Do with like timorous accent and dire yell - Iago
Look to your house your daughter and your bags! Thieves, Thieves! -Iago
An old black ram is tupping your white ewe - Iago
Arise, arise! … Arise I say! - Iago
My name is Roderigo.... 'the worser welcome’- Brabantio
My daughter is not for thee - Brabantio
This is Venice. My house is not a grange -Brabantio
You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse... coursers for cousins and jennets for Germans
– Iago
Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs - Iago
,The gross clasps of a lascivious Moor - Roderigo
Your daughter... hath made a gross revolt tying her duty beauty wit and fortunes in an extravagant and
wheeling stranger -Roderigo
Let loose on me the justice of the state for thus deluding you - Roderigo
Call up all my people.... light, I say, light ! -Brabantio
It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place to be produced.. Against the Moor - Iago
I must show out a flag and sign of love which is indeed but a sign - Iago
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search - Iago
Enter Brabantio in his nightgown – Stage Direction
O she deceives me past thought - Brabantio
Raise all my kindred. - Brabantio
How got she out? O treason of the blood! Fathers from hence trust not your daughter’s minds -
Brabantio
Apprehend her and the Moor - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 2
Spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honour - Iago
The magnifico is much beloved and hath in his effect a voice potential as double as the Duke’s. -Iago
Let him do his spite. The services which I have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints –Othello
I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege – Othello
I love the gentle Desdemona - Othello
I must be found. My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly. -Othello
He requires your hasteposthaste appearance - Cassio
It is a business of some heat - Cassio
He tonight hath boarded a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize he’s made forever. - Iago
General be advised. He comes to bad intent. - Iago
Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them – Othello
Where hast thou stowed my daughter - Brabantio
If she in chains of magic were not bound whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation,
, would ever have... run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou—to fear, not to
delight! - Brabantio
Thou hast practised on her with foul charms - Brabantio
I therefore apprehend and attach thee for a practiser of arts inhibited - Brabantio
Lay hold upon him. - Brabantio
Were it my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter – Othello
My brothers of the state cannot but feel this wrong as ‘twere their own. - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Tis a pageant to keep us in false gaze - Senators
Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman - Duke
My daughter ! O, my daughter! Dead? Ay, to me. She is abused, stolen from me and corrupted –
Brabantio
For nature so preposterously to err.... Sans witchcraft could not. - Brabantio
The bloody book of law you shall yourself read - Duke
I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, it is most true -Othello
Rude am I in my speech and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace -Othello
Feats of broil and battle - Othello
I will a round unvarnished tale deliver of my whole course of love - Othello
I won his daughter – Othello
To fall in love with what she feared to look on! It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect... against
all rules of nature - Brabantio
To vouch this is no proof - Duke
Send for the lady to the Sagittary – Othello
Let your sentence even fall upon my life - Othello
Her father loved me oft invited me - Othello
With a greedy ear devour up my discourse – Othello
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs - Othello
Twas pitiful twas wondrous pitiful -Othello
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