Othello Quotes

Iago am 1.1

Iago am 1.1

I am not what I am

Iago tupping 1.1

Even now, now very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe

Brabantio minds 1.1

Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds By what you see them act.

Othello services 1.2

My services which I have done the signiory Shall out-tongue his complaints

Iago Janus 1.2

By Janus, I think no

Brabantio abused 1.3

She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted

Brabantio deceived 1.3

Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father and may thee.

Othello heaven 1.3

That heaven had made her such a man.

Roderigo fortune 1.1

What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe

Othello forked 3.3

Even then this forked plague is fated to us.

Iago decieve 3.3

She did deceive her father marrying you.

Iago jealousy 3.3

O beware. My lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

Emilia stomachs 3.4

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungrily, and when they are full, They belch us.

Othello raven 4.1

As doth the raven o'er the infected house

Othello horned 4.1

A horned man's a monster and a beast.

Desdemona offend 4.1

I will not stay to offend you

Cassio captain 2.1

She that I spake of, our great captain's captain

Iago lips 2.1

Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows on me / You would have enough

Iago black 2.1

If she be black, and thereto have a wit, /She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.

Iago web 2.1

With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio

Iago tuned 2.1

O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,

Iago fed 2.1

Her eye must be fed. And what delight shall she have to look on the devil?

Iago satiety 2.1

to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour, sympathy in years, manners and beauties

Iago gorge 2.1

begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor

Iago thank 2.1

Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me

Cassio reputation 2.3

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!

Iago wound 2.3

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound: there is more sense in that than in reputation.

Iago reputation 2.3

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Iago villain 2.3

And what's he then that says I play the villain

Iago net 2.3

And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all.

Cassio Florentine 3.1

I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.

Desdemona solicitor 3.3

Thy solicitor shall rather die / Than give thy cause away

Iago jewel 3.3

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

Othello fellow 3.3

This fellow's of exceeding honesty

Othello haggard 3.3

If I do prove her haggard, / Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, / I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind / To prey at fortune.

Emilia fantasy 3.3

What he will do with it, heaven knows, not I: I nothing but to please his fantasy.

Iago common 3.3

You have a thing for me? It is a common thing- / ... To have a foolish wife.

Othello farewell 3.3

Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!

Othello Dian 3.3

Her name, that was as fresh /As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black / As mine own face

Othello vengeance 3.3

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!

Desdemona heart 3.4

For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart

Othello heart 3.4

But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts

Othello amiable 3.4

'Twould make her amiable and subdue her father

Othello gift 3.4

but if she lost it / Or made a gift of it, my father's eye / Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt

Iago friend 4.1

Or to be naked with her friend in bed / An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

Othello raven 4.1

As doth the raven o'er the infected house, / Boding to all!

Othello horned 4.1

A horned man's a monster and a beast.

Iago passion 4.1

A passion most unsuiting such a man-

Othello crocodile 4.1

Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.

Othello obedient 4.1

And she's obedient; as you say, obedient, / Very obedient

Othello secrets 4.2

A closet lock and key of villainous secrets;

Othello heaven 4.2

Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves / Should fear to seize thee

Othello hell 4.2

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Othello sores 4.2

All kind of sores and shames on my bare head

Othello scorn 4.2

The fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving finger at!

Othello live 4.2

Where either I must live or bear no life

Othello cherubim 4.2

Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubim; / Ay there look grim as hell!

Othello weed 4.2

O, thou weed, / Who art so lovely fair and smell's so sweet

Othello forges 4.2

I should make very forges of my cheeks / That would to cinders burn up modesty ' Did I but speak thy deeds.

Othello Saint Peter 4.2

That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keeps the gate of hell! You, you, ay, you

Emilia beggar 4.2

He called her hore. A beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

Emilia forsook 4.2

Hath she forsook so many noble matches, / Her father, and her country, and her friends

Desdemona fortune 4.2

It is my wretched fortune

Emilia knave 4.2

The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, / Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.

Desdemona shroud 4.3

If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me / In one of those same sheets.

Desdemona willow 4.3

Sing all a green willow must be my garland. / Let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve.

Emilia faults 4.3

But I do think it is their husbands' faults / If wives do fall

Emilia treasures 4.3

Say that they slack their duties / And pour our treasures into foreign laps

Emilia jealousies 4.3

Or else break out in peevish jealousies, / Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us

Emilia sense 4.3

Let husband know ' Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell, / And have their palates for both sweet and sour

Iago beauty 5.1

He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly

Othello brave 5.1

O brave Iago, honest and just

Iago fruits 5.1

This is the fruits of whoring

Bianca strumpet 5.1

I am no strumpet, but of life as honest / As you that thus abuse me.

Iago night 5.1

This is the night / That either makes or fordoes me quite.

Othello cause 5.2

It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul:

Othello betray 5.2

Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.

Othello Prometheus 5.2

I know not where is that Prometheus heat / That can thy light relume

Othello plucked 5.2

When I have plucked thy rose/ I cannot give it vital growth again

Othello justice 5.2

O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade / Justice to break her sword!

Othello sweet 5.2

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. / But they are cruel tears

Desdemona lord 5.2

my lord

Othello wife 5.2

My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.

Othello eclipse 5.2

Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse

Desdemona commend 5.2

Commend me to my kind lord

Emilia angel 5.2

O, the more angel she, / And you the blacker devil!

Emilia villainy 5.2

O mistress, villainy hath made mocks with love!

Emilia pernicious 5.2

If he say so, may his pernicious soul / Rot half a grain a day! He lies to th'heart

Emilia tongue 5.2

I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak:

Emilia shame 5.2

Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all, / All, all cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

Othello end 5.2

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.