Who Said It? - Othello Quote Quiz

“I follow him to serve my turn upon him” (I.I.42)

Iago

“Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves” (I.I.51)

Iago

“Call up her father: / Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight” (I.I.68-69)

Iago

“Though I do hate him as I do hell’s pains, / Yet, for necessity of present life, / I must show out a flag and sign of love” (I.I.153-155)

Iago

“Of being taken by the insolent foe / And sold to slavery” (I.III.134)

Othello

“Yet she wished / That heaven had made her such a man” (I.III.162)

Othello

“She loved me for the dangers I had passed… / This only is the witchcraft I have used” (I.III.166–168)

Othello

“I am glad at soul I have no other child, / for thy escape would teach me tyranny / to hang clogs on them, I have done, my lord” (I.III.194-196)

Brabantio

“The robbed that smiles steals something from the theif; / He robs himself that spends a bootless grief” (I.III.206-207n)

Duke

“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: / She has deceived her father and may thee” (I.III.288-289)

Brabantio

“He hath a person and a smooth dispose / to be suspected, framed to make women false” (I.III.379-380)

Iago

“Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” (I.III.385-386)

Iago

“She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain” (II.I.76)

Cassio

“Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / as of her tongue she oft bestows on me / you would have enough” (II.I.100-102)

Iago

“with as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio” (II.I.164)

Iago

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without / merit and lost without deserving” (II.III.247-248)

Iago

“That men should put an enemy / in their mouths to steal away their brains” (II.III.265-266)

Cassio

“when devils will the blackest sins put on, / they do suggest at first with heavenly shows / as I do now”

Iago

“His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift”

Desdemona

“men should be what they seem; / or those that be not, would they might seem none!”

Iago

“certain, men should be what they seem”

Othello

“Though I am bound to every act of duty, / I am not bound to that all slaves are free to”

Iago

“As I confess it is my nature’s plague / to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy / shapes faults that are not”

Iago

“Good name in man and women, dear my lord, / is the immediate jewel of their souls”

Iago

“O beware, my lord, of jealousy: / it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / the meat it feeds on”

Iago

“I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove”

Othello

“O curse of marriage, / that we can call these delicate creatures ours / and not their appetites!”

Othello

“Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world , / shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep / which thou owed’st yesterday”

Iago

“Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore”

Othello

“To be direct and honest is not safe”

Iago

“I’ll tear her all to pieces!”

Othello

“As jealous creatures are, it were enough / to put him to i’ll thinking”

Desdemona

“I think the sun where he was born / drew all such humours from him”

Desdemona

“Tis not a year or two shows us a man / they are all but stomachs, and we all but food / they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / they belch us”

Emilia

“something of moment then. I will go meet him. There’s matter in’t indeed if he be angry”

Iago

“With her, on her, what you will”

Iago

“Work on, / my medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught; / and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, / all guiltless, meet reproach. What ho, my lord! / My lord, I say! Othello!”

Iago

“as ‘tis the strumpet’s plague / to beguile many and be beguiled by one”

Iago

“given to captivity me and my utmost hopes / I should have found in some places of my soul / a drop of patience”

Othello

“You, mistress, / that have the office opposite to saint Peter, / and keeps the gate of hell!”

Othello

“I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / some busy and insinuating rogue, / some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / have not devised this slander”

Emilia

“I would not do such a thing for a joint-ring…But for all the whole world! Ud’s pity, / who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a / monarch”

Emilia

“But I do think it is their husband’s faults / If wives do fall”

Emilia

“And have not we affections / desires for sport, frailty, as men have?”

Emilia

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

Bianca

“Put out the light, and then put out the light”

Othello

“Nobody; I myself. Farewell”

Desdemona

“I told him what I thought, and told no more / than what he found himself was apt and true”

Iago

“For thou hast killed the sweetest innocent / that e’er did lift up eye”

Emilia

“Demand me nothing; what you know, you know. / From this time forth I never will speak word”

Iago

“Then must you speak / of one that loved not wisely, but too well”

Othello