Othello quotes

"I follow him to serve my turn upon him" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Iago

"An old black ram is tupping your white ewe" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Iago

"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father and may thee" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Brabantio

"I hate the Moor. And it is thought abroad twixt my sheets he's done my office" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Iago

"Not tonight, ... I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"My money is almost all spent; I have been tonight exceedingly well cudgeled" (Act 2, Scene 1)

Roderigo

"For I fear Cassio with my nightcap too" (Act 2, Scene 1)

Iago

"And when I love thee not, chaos is come again" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus" (Act 1, Scene 3)

Iago

"He hath a person and a smooth dispose/ To be suspected, framed to make women false" (Act 1, Scene 3)

Iago

"The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem so" (Act 1, Scene 3)

Iago

"Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk. This is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk now" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon" (Act 1, Scene 3)

Roderigo

"I'll see before I doubt, and when I doubt, prove" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"As I confess it is my nature to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen/ Let him not know it and he's not robbed at all" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"In Venice, they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"O curse of marriage! That we can call these creatures ours but not their appetites" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"Give me the ocular proof" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"Tis not a year or two shows us a man/ They are all but stomachs and we all but food" (Act 3, Scene 4)

Emilia

"It speaks against her with the other proofs" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they’re jealous" (Act 3, Scene 4)

Emilia

"Thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Iago

"But I forsooth think it is their husband's fault/ If wives do fall" (Act 4, Scene 3)

Emilia

"I am no strumpet, but of life as honest/ As you that thus abuse me" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"You told a lie, an odious, damned lie! Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Emilia

"Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Iago

"Look on the tragic loading of this bed. This is thy work" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Emilia

"Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"How shall I murder him, Iago?" (Act 5, Scene 1)

Roderigo

"She did deceive her father, marrying you" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Brabantio

"Make me to see it; or at least so prove it, that the probation bear no hinge nor loop to hang a doubt on" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"Not that I love you not" (Act 5, Scene 1)

Iago

"I will not kill thy unoffending soul" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"Men should be what they seem" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"I never did believe it. I would be a fool if I did" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"Every good thing is dangerous" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"I have no great devotion to the deed" (Act 5, Scene 1)

Iago

"Are you not ashamed?" (Act 4, Scene 1)

Lodovico

"To you, I give the value of my daughter" (Act 1, Scene 3)

Brabantio

"That is not so, but that so much is certain" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Iago

"I do think it is a lie" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"I am a man that is not easily jealous" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Othello

"That he would do so, I think it is a lie" (Act 5, Scene 1)

Cassio

"Why should I be the third to know?" (Act 3, Scene 4)

Bianca

"Let me go with you, Iago" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Roderigo

"I've lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"Men of Cyprus, let me have your voices!" (Act 4, Scene 1)

Lodovico

"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm as I have to be hurt" (Act 4, Scene 3)

Emilia

"I have not deserved this" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"Do not doubt me, if I will not, when I shall be content to die" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"She will sing the savageness out of a bear!" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"Your words have set me on the rack" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Roderigo

"I will play the swan, and die in music" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"O thou art wise, 'tis certain" (Act 3, Scene 3)

Iago

"Why should I speak of it? I have no wish to mention it" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Iago

"Now will I question Cassio of Bianca's love" (Act 4, Scene 1)

Iago

"Fool! Iago, what dost thou mean?" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"Why, what a fool was I?" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"Desdemona is a false liar, a deceiver of men!" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Othello

"I never did offend you in my life" (Act 4, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"Who can control his fate?" (Act 4, Scene 3)

Emilia

"Sir, I am too bold to do this" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio

"Good night, good night. God bless thee!" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Desdemona

"I'll have her damned, she's a liar!" (Act 5, Scene 2)

Othello

"To love her is to be cruel to her" (Act 1, Scene 1)

Iago

"I do suspect the lustful Moor" (Act 2, Scene 1)

Iago

"Thou art a foolish fellow" (Act 2, Scene 1)

Roderigo

"Would she were here! I would do it all again" (Act 2, Scene 3)

Cassio