Othello - Key Quotes

Iago - I am…

…not what I am

Iago - Look to your…

…house, your daughter, and your bags!

Iago - the beast…

…with two backs

Brabantio - How got…

…she out?

Brabantio - Trust not…

… your daughters’ minds

Brabantio - O would you…

…had had her

Iago - By…

…Janus

Iago - He hath boarded…

…a land carrack

Brabantio - abused her delicate…

…youth with drugs or minerals

Brabantio - Dead?…

…Ay, to me

Othello - Rude am…

..I in my speech

Othello - I won…

…his daughter

Othello - a greedy ear…

…/Devour up my discourse

Othello - here comes the lady;…

…let her witness it

Desdemona - my noble…

…father

Desdemona - I am hitherto your daughter.…

…But here’s my husband

Desdemona - a moth…

…of peace

Othello - the young affects…

…in me defunct

Othello - a man he is…

…of honesty and trust

Brabantio - Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes…

…to see/ She has deceived her father, and may thee

Iago - But we have reason to…

…cool our raging motions

Iago - it cannot be that Desdemona should…

…long continue her love to the Moor

Iago - If thou canst cuckold him…

…thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport

Iago - I hate the Moor,/ And…

…it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets/ He’s done my office

Iago - Hell and night/ Must…

…bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light

Cassio - Our great…

…captain’s captain

Iago - you are pictures out of doors…

…bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds

Desdemona - Do not learn of him…

…though he be thy husband

Iago - With as little a web as this…

…will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio

Othello + Desdemona - O my fair…

…warrior! My dear Othello

Othello - If it were now to die,/…

…‘Twere now to be most happy

Iago - O you are well tuned now!…

…/But I’ll set downt he pegs that make this music,/ As honest as I am

Iago - Her eye…

…must be fed

Iago - The wine she…

…drinks is made of grapes

Iago - I do suspect the…

…lusty Moor/ Hath leaped into my seat

Iago - into my seat. The thought whereof/…

…Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards

Iago - Till I am evened with him…

…wife for wife

Othello - Thy honesty and love…

…doth mince this matter

Cassio - Reputation, reputation, repuation!…

…O I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial

Iago - Our General’s wife…

…is now the general

Iago - I protest, in the…

…sincerity of love and honest kindness

Iago - His soul is so…

…enfettered to his love

Iago - I’ll pour this…

…pestilence into his ear

Cassio - she will to virtuous Desdemona/…

…procure me some access

Cassio - I never knew/…

…A Florentine more kind and honest

Desdemona - I’ll watch him tame… His bed…

…shall seem a school, his board a shrift

Desdemona - Or stand so…

…mammering on

Othello - I will deny…

…thee nothing

Othello - But I do love thee; and when…

…I love thee not, / Chaos is come again

Iago - Good name… 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

Othello - For she had eyes…

…and chose me

Iago - She did deceive her…

…father, marrying you

Iago + Othello - For too much loving you…

…I am bound to thee forever

Othello - If she be false,…

…o then heaven mocks itself

Emilia - I nothing but…

…to please his fantasy

Othello - Othello’s…

…occupation’s gone

Othello - prove my…

…love a whore

Othello - Give me the…

…ocular proof

Othello - Her name that was as fresh/ As Dian’s visage…

…, is now begrimed and black/ As mine own face

Othello - I’ll tear her…

…all to pieces

Othello - Arise black vengeance…

…from the hollow hell

Othello - swift means of death for the fair devil. Now…

…thou art my lieutenant

Desdemona - I think the sun where he was born/…

…Drew all such humours from him

Desdemona - My lord is…

…not my lord

Desdemona - Nay, we must think…

…men are not gods

Desdemona - Heaven keep that monster…

…from Othello’s mind

Cassio - think it no addition, nor my wish…

…To have him see me womaned

Othello - A horned man’s…

…a monster and a beast

Iago - it is a creature/…

…that dotes on Cassio

Othello - I will chop her…

…into messes. Cuckhold me!

Othello + Desdemona - [strikes her]…

…Devil!/ I have not deserved this.

Othello - Goats…

…and monkeys!

EMilia - Lay down my…

…soul at stake

Othello - this is a subtle whore/…

…A closet lock and key of villainous secrets

Othello - Heaven truly knows…

…that thou art false as hell

Desdemona - we must not…

…now displease him

Emilia - who would not make her husband…

…a cuckold to make him a monarch?

Emilia - I do not think it is their husbands’…

…faults if wives do fall

Emilia - Let husbands know/…

Their wives have sense like them

Roderigo - O damned Iago!…

…O inhuman dog!

Othello - that whiter skin of hers than snow/…

And smooth as monumental alabaster

Othello - thou mak’st me call what I intend to do/…

…A murder, which I thought a sacrifice

Othello - She’s like a liar…

…gone to burning hell,/ ‘Twas I that killed her

Emilia - The Moor hath…

…killed my mistress

Emilia - I will not charm my tongue…

…I am bound to speak

Emilila - Perchance, Iago…

…I will ne’er go home

Emilia - O lay me by…

…my mistress’ side

Emilia - Willow, willow, willow - / Moor, she was chaste…

…she loved thee, cruel Moor

Iago - Demand me nothing. What you know, you know…

…From this time forth I never will speak a word

Othello - the must you speak/…

…Of one that love not wisely, bu too well