Othello Quotes Acts 4-5

"Her honor is an essence that's not seen;/They have it very oft that have it not"

Iago to Othello

"Work on,/My medicine, work! Thus credulous fool are caught,/And many worthy and chaste dames are even thus,/All guiltless, meet reproach"

Iago to Iago (Aside)

"For I will make him tell the tale anew-/Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when/He hath and is again to cope you wife"

Iago to Othello

"If that the earth could teem with women's tears,/Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile"

Othello to Emilia

"If any wretch have put this in your head,/Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!"

Emilia to Othello

"Oh thou weed,/Who are so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet/That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born"

Othello to Desdemona

"If any such there be, Heaven pardon him!/A halter pardon him! And Hell gnaw his bones!"

Emilia and Desdemona to Iago

"Faith, I have heard too much, and your words and performances are no kin together"

Roderigo to Iago

"The world's a huge thing. It is a great price/for a small vice"

Emilia to Desdemona

"The ills we do, their ills instruct us so"

Emilia to Desdemona

"Now, whether he kill Cassio,/Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,/Every way makes my gain."

Iago to Iago (Aside)

"Oh, damned Iago! Oh inhuman dog!"

Roderigo to Iago

"This is the night/that either makes me or fordoes me quite"

Iago to Iago (Aside)

"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men./Put out the light, and then put out the light./If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,/I can again they former light restore,/should I repent me.

Othello to Othello (Aside)

"I would not kill they unprepared spirit."

Othello to Desdemona

"Nobody, I myself. Farewell."

Desdemona to Emilia

"I told him what I thought, and told no more/Than what he found himself was apt and true."

Iago to Emilia

"O! O! O!"

Othello to All

"Let Heaven and men and devils, let them all,/All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."

Emilia to All

"But why should honor outlive honesty? Let it go all."

Othello to Emilia

"For naught did I in hate, but all in honor"

Othello to Lodovico

"Then must you speak/ Of one that loved not wisely but too well,/ Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,/ Perplexed in the extreme, of one whose hand,/Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away

Othello to Lodovico