Othello Quotes Acts 1-3

"I am not what I am"

Iago to Roderigo

"It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place/To be produced, as if I stay I shall/Against the Moor."

Iago to Roderigo

"Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds

By what you see them act."

Brabantio to Roderigo

"By Janus, I think no"

Iago to Othello

"Good signior, you shall more command with years

Than with your weapons."

Othello to Brabantio

"I think this tale would win my daughter too./Good Brabantio,/Take up this mangled matter at the best"

Duke of Venice to Brabantio

"So please your grace, my ancient;/A man he is of honest and trust:/To his conveyance I assign my wife,"

Othello to Duke

"Your son-in-law is far more fair than black"

Duke to Brabantio

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

Brabantio to Othello

"Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him"

Iago to Roderigo

"The Moor is of a free and open nature,/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,/And will as tenderly be led by the nose/As asses are."

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"O, you are well tuned now!/But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,/As honest as I am."

Iago to Iago (aside)

"Provoke him, that he may; for

even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to

mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true

taste again but by the displanting of Cassio"

Iago to Roderigo

"Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor

At least into a jealousy so strong

That judgment cannot cure."

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"Knavery's plain face is never seen till used"

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"She's a most exquisite lady"

Cassio to Iago

"If I can fasten but one cup upon him,

With that which he hath drunk to-night already,

He'll be as full of quarrel and offence

As my young mistress' dog."

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor

Should hazard such a place as his own second

With one of an ingraft infirmity"

Montano to Iago

"Touch me not so near:

I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth

Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;

Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth

Shall nothing wrong him."

Iago to Othello

"I know, Iago,

Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,

Making it light to Cassio."

Othello to Iago

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

my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of

myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,

Iago, my reputation!"

Cassio to Iago

"Our General's wife is now the General"

Iago to Cassio

"Confess yourself freely to her; importune

her help to put you in your place again"

Iago to Cassio

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

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"So will I turn her virtue into pitch,

And out of her own goodness make the net

That shall enmesh them all."

Iago to Iago (soliloquy)

"No, sure, I cannot think it,

That he would steal away so guilty-like,

Seeing you coming."

Iago to Othello

"Men should be what they seem;

Or those that be not, would they might seem none!"

Iago to Othello (irony)

"Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false"

Iago to Othello

"No, Iago;

I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;

And on the proof, there is no more but this,--

Away at once with love or jealousy!"

Othello to Iago

"I do not think but Desdemona's honest."

Othello to Iago

"Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless

Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds."

Othello to Othello

"Do not you chide. I have a thing for you."

Emilia to Iago

"Trifles light as air

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

As proofs of holy writ"

Iago to Iago

"O, now, for ever

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!"

Othello to Iago

"Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!"

Othello to Iago

"I think my wife be honest and think she is not;

I think that thou art just and think thou art not.

I'll have some proof."

Othello to Iago

"I know not, madam"

Emilia to Desdemona

"There's magic in the web of it"

Othello to Desdemona

"But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;

They are not ever jealous for the cause,

But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster

Begot upon itself, born on itself."

Emilia to Desdemona