Othello quotes

I am not what I am.

Iago

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you

your daughter and the Moor are now

making the beast with two backs.

Iago

O thou foul thief, where hast thou

stowed my daughter?

Damned as thou art, thou hast

enchanted her.

Brabantio

Valiant Othello, we must straight

employ you

Against the general enemy

Ottoman

Duke

To you I am bound for life and

education.

My life and education both do learn

me How to respect you. You are the lord

of duty.

I am hitherto your daughter. But

here's my husband.

Desdemona

I here do give thee that with all my

heart

Which, but thou hast already, with all

my heart I would keep from thee.

Brabantio

If virtue no delighted beauty lack,

Your son-in-law is far more fair than

black.

Duke

Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes

to see.

She has deceived her father, and may

thee.

Brabantio

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind

puppies!

Iago

Put money in thy purse.

Iago

I hate the Moor,

And it is thought abroad that 'twixt

my sheets

He's done my office. I know not if 't

be true,

But I, for mere suspicion in that kind

Will do as if for surety.

Iago

I have very poor and unhappy brains

for drinking. I could well wish

courtesy would invent some other

custom of entertainment.

Cassio

Do not think , gentlemen, I am drunk.

This is my ancient, this is my right

hand , and this is my left. I am not

drunk now. I can stand well enough,

and I speak well enough.

Cassio

I would rather have this tongue cut from

my mouth

Than it should do offense to Michael

Cassio.

Iago

Cassio, I love thee

But never more be officer of mine.

Othello

Come, let us to the castle.

News, friends! Our wars are done, the

Turks are drowned.

Othello

Reputation, reputation, reputation!

Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have

lost the immortal part of myself, and

what remains is bestial.

Cassio

Our general's wife is now the general.

Iago

Men should be what they seem.

Iago

Villain, be sure thou prove my love a

*****,

Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof

Or by the worth of mine eternal soul

Thou hadst been better have been

born a dog

Than answer my waked wrath!

Othello

Have you not sometimes seen a

handkerchief

Spotted with strawberries in your

wife's hand?

Iago

Now art thou my lieutenant.

Othello

'Tis not a year or two shows us a

man.

They are all but stomachs, and we all

but food.

To eat us hungerly, and when they

are full,

They belch us.

Emilia

Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?

Desdemona

O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!

Roderigo

Yet I'll not shed her blood,

Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than

snow

And smooth as monumental

alabaster.

Yet she may die, else she'll betray

more men.

Othello

That death's unnatural that kills for

loving.

Desdemona

How shall I murder him, Iago?

Othello

No, my heart is turned to stone. I

strike it and it hurts my hand.

Othello

If the earth could teem with

woman's tears,

Each drop she falls would prove a

crocodile.

Out of my sight!

Othello

Do it not with poison. Strangle her in

her bed, even the bed she hath

contaminated.

Iago

Kill me tomorrow---let me live

tonight!

Desdemona

Not Cassio killed? Then murder's out

of tune,

And sweet revenge grows harsh.

Othello

If thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill

thee.

Othello

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way

but this,

Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

Othello

When you shall these unlucky deeds

relate,

Speak of me as I am. Of one that

loved not wisely, but too well.

Of one not easily jealous, but being

wrought,

Perplexed in the extreme.

Othello

O thou dull Moor! That handkerchief

thou speak'st of

I found by fortune and did give my

husband.

Emelia

She's a liar gone to hell.

'Twas I that killed her.

Othello

And have you mercy too! I never did

Offend you in my life, never loved

\Cassio

But with such general warranty of

heaven

As I might love. I never gave him

token.

Desdemona

I'd have thee live,

For in my sense 'tis happiness to die.

Othello