Key quotes + where to find them
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him.”
Iago - A1S1
“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly followed.”
Iago - A1S1
“For when my outward action doth demonstrate / The native act and figure of my heart”
Iago - A1S1
“I am not what I am.”
Iago A1S1
“an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.”
Iago - A1S1
“loving his own pride and purposes”
About Othello - A1S1
“the devil will make a grandsire of you.”
Iago - A1S1
“the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor:”
About Othello - A1S1
“little godliness I have,”
Iago - A1S2
“I love the gentle Desdemona”
Othello - A1S2
“Good Signor, you shall more command with years / Than with your weapons.”
Othello - A1S2
“Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are our gardeners.”
Iago - A1S3
“when she is sated with his body she / will find the error of her choice.”
Iago - A1S3
“I hate the moor.”
Iago - A1S3
“I did thrive in this fair lady’s love, / And she is in mine.”
Othello - A1S3
“warlike Moor Othello”
About Othello - A2S1
“Brave Othello”
About Othello - A2S1
“he hath achieved a maid / That paragons description”
Cassio - A2S1
“You rise to play and go to bed to work.”
Iago - A2S1
Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows on me”
Iago - A2S1
“O fie upon thee, slander!”
Desdemona - A2S1
“You shall not write my praise.”
Emilia - A2S1
“O, my fair warrior! / My dear Othello!”
Othello + Desdemona - A2S1
“O, my soul’s joy,”
Othello - A2S1
“he’ll prove to Desdemona / A most dear husband.”
Iago - A2S1
“I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leaped into my seat,”
Iago - A2S1
“my night-cap”
Iago - A2S1
“Reputation is an idle and mist false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.” (Prose)
Iago - A2S3
“I know, Iago / Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,”
Othello - A2S3
“Good night, honest Iago.”
Cassio - A2S3
“When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows / As I do now.”
Iago - A2S3
“her appetite shall play the god / With his weak function.”
Iago - A2S3
“Iago is most honest.”
Othello - A2S3
“profits yet to come ‘tween me and you.”
Othello - A2S3
“I will bestow you where you shall have time / To speak your bosom freely.”
Emilia - A2S2
“I am sorry / For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.”
Emilia - A2S2
“I’ll intermingle everything he does / With Cassio’s suit.”
Desdemona - A3S3
“His bed shall seem a school,”
Desdemona - A3S3
“I’ll see before I doubt;”
Othello - A3S3
“Away at once with love or jealousy!”
Othello - A3S3
“O beware, my Lord, of Jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster”
Iago - A3S3
“In Venice they do let God see the pranks / They dare not show their husbands.”
Iago A3S3
“That cuckold lives in bliss”
Iago - A3S3
“Excellent wretch!”
Othello - A3S3
“Why, why is this?”
Othello - A3S3
“Farewell the tranquil mind.”
Othello - A3S3
“Farewell constant.”
Othello - A3S3
“I’ll tear her all to pieces!”
Othello - A3S3
“which doth mask the meat it feeds on.”
Iago - A3S3
“keep a corner in the thing I love for others’ uses”
Othello - A3S3
“Death and damnation! O!”
Othello - A3S3
“He hath commanded me to go to bed”
Desdemona - A4S2
“My downright violence and storms of fortunes / May trumpet to the world.”
Desdemona - A1S3
“cunning whore of Venice”
Othello - A4S2
“Impudent trumpet!”
Othello - A4S2
“By heaven, you do me wrong.”
Othello - A4S2
“And bade me to dismiss you…Dismiss me?”
Desdemona + Emilia - A4S2
“I would not kill thy soul”
Othello - A5S2
“sweet soul, take heed.”
Othello - A5S2
“O, the more angel she, / And you the blacker devil!”
Emilia - A5S2
“She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.”
Emilia - A5S2
“must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;”
Othello - A5S2
“An honourable murder,”
Othello - A5S2
“For naught did i in hate, but all in honour.”
Othello - A5S2
“Rude am I in my speech / And little blessed with the soft phrases of peace,”
Othello - A1S3
“My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.”
Othello - A5S2
“Thy solicitor shall rather die / Than give thy cause away.”
Desdemona - A3S3
“Commend me to my kind Lord.”
Desdemona - A5S2
“As ignorant as dirt.”
Emilia - A5S2