Love Through the Ages: Othello Quotations

"I will... "

"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at"

"Fathers, from... "

"Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds by what you see them act."

"I know... "

"I know my price, I am worth no worse a place."

"I am... "

"I am not what I am."

"You'll have... "

"You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you'll have your nephews neigh to you"

"You have... "

"You have lost half your soul; even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"

"I lack... "

"I lack iniquity sometimes to do me service"

"my demerits... "

"my demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reach'd"

"I must... "

"I must be found... my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly."

"By Ja... "

"By Janus, I think no."

"For if... "

"For if such actions may have passage free, bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be."

"She is abus'd... "

"She is abus'd, stolen from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines"

"to the... "

"to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou - to fear, not to delight"

"A maiden... "

"A maiden never bold... to fall in love with what she feared to look on?"

"yet she... "

"yet she wish'd that heaven had made her such a man"

"That I... "

"That I did love the Moor to live with him, my downright violence and storm of fortunes may trumpet to the world"

"If I... "

"If I be left behind a moth of peace, and he go to the war"

"Look to... "

"Look to her Moor, if thou has eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee"

"My life... "

"My life upon her faith!"

"Hell and... "

"Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light."

"The div... "

"The divine Desdemona"

"Let it... "

"Let it not gall your patience, good Iago, that I extend my manners. 'Tis my breeding that gives me this bold show of courtesy."

"As of... "

"As of her tongue she oft bestows on me you would have enough"

"To suckle... "

"To suckle fools and chronicle small beer"

"O, most... "

"O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband."

"With as... "

"With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio."

"The heavens... "

"The heavens forbid but that our loves and comforts should increase, even as our days do grow."

"Her eye... "

"Her eye must be fed. And what delight shall she have to look on the devil?"

"If she had... "

"If she had been blessed she would never have loved the Moor"

"The purchase... "

"The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue; that profit's yet to come 'tween me and you."

"he hath not..."

"he hath not yet made wanton the night with her, and she is sport for Jove."

"he that... "

"he that is approv'd in this offence, though he had twinned with me, both at a birth, shall lose me."

"Reputation, reputation,... "

"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!"

"And what's... "

"And what's he then that says I play the villain, when this advice is free I give, and honest"

"Divinity... "

"Divinity of hell!"

"So will... "

"So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all."

"My sick... "

"My sick fool Roderigo, whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out"

"His soul... "

"His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, that she may make, unmake, do what she list, even as her appetite shall play the god with his weak function"

"O my... "

"O my fair warrior!"

"O, you... "

"O, you are well-tuned now! But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, as honest as I am."

"I'll watch... "

"I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience; his bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; I'll intermingle every thing he does with Cassio's suit."

"Whate'er you... "

"Whate'er you be, I am obedient."

"Excellent wretch!... "

"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee; and when I love thee not, chaos is come again."

"I dare... "

"I dare be sworn I think that he is honest."

"O beware,... "

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

"She had... "

"She had eyes and chose me."

"And on... "

"And on the proof, there is no more but this: away at once with love or jealousy!"

"In Venice... "

"In Venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands. Their best conscience is not to leav't undone, but to keep't unknown."

"She did... "

"She did deceive her father, marrying you; and when she seemed to shake and fear your looks she lov'd them most."

"Haply for... "

"Haply for I am black"

"If she be... "

"If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself"

"What he... "

"What he will do with it, heaven knows, not I: I nothing but to please his fantasy."

"Villain, be... "

"Villain, be sure thou prove my love a wh*re; be sure of it."

"Were they... "

"Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, as salt as wolves in pride"

"Witness that... "

"Witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands, heart, to wrong'd Othello's service."

"Damn her,... "

"Damn her, lewd minx! O damn her, damn her!... the fair devil."

"There's magic... "

"There's magic in the web of it"

"To lose... "

"To lose it or to give't away were such perdition as nothing else could match."

"'Tis not... "

"'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."

"Not that... "

"Not that I love you not..." "But that you do not love me"

"She is protectress... "

"She is protectress of her honour too. May she give that?"

"Lie... With... "

"Lie... With her, on her, what you will."

"For I... "

"For I will make him tell the tale anew."

"Prithee, say... "

"Prithee, say true." "I am a very villain else."

"How shall... "

"How shall I murder him, Iago?"

"Ay, let... "

"Ay, let her rot and perish, and be damned tonight... O, the world hath not a sweeter creature!"

"Strangle her... "

"Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated." "Good, good! The justice of it pleases"

"My lord,... "

"My lord, this would not be believ'd in Venice"

"I have not... "

"I have not deserved this."

"She can... "

"She can turn, and turn, and yet go on, and turn again... Goats and monkeys!"

"I marry... "

"I marry her? What! A customer!... ha, ha."

"Heaven truly... "

"Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell."

"I took you... "

"I took you for that cunning wh*re of Venice that married with Othello."

"Am I... "

"Am I that name, Iago?"

"The Moor's... "

"The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow"

"his unkindness... "

"his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love."

"Sing wi... "

"Sing willow, willow, willow"

"That there... "

"That there be women who abuse their husbands in such gross kind?"

"It is... "

"It is a great price for a small vice."

"I do think... "

"I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall... let them use us well; else let them know the ills we do, their ills instruct us so"

"He hath a... "

"He hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly"

"I do suspect... "

"I do suspect this trash to be a party in this injury."

"O, fie... "

"O, fie upon thee, strumpet!"

"This is... "

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

"Yet I'll... "

"Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster"

"Think on... "

"Think on thy sins." "They are loves I bear to you."

"Peace, and... "

"Peace, and be still!"

"mak'st me... "

"mak'st me call what I intend to do a murder, which I thought a sacrifice"

"Methinks it... "

"Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse of sun and moon"

"Not Cassio... "

"Not Cassio kill'd! Then murder's out of tune"

"Nobody; I... "

"Nobody; I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O farewell!"

"She's like... "

"She's like a liar gone to burning hell: 'twas I that kill'd her."

"O, the... "

"O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!"

"You told... "

"You told a lie, an odious damned lie: upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!"

"'Tis proper... "

"'Tis proper I obey him, but not now."

"Let heaven,... "

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

"Demand me... "

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

"I have done... "

"I have done the state some service and they know't."

"Of one... "

"Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well; of one not easily jealous."

"I took by... "

"I took by th'throat the circumcised dog and smote him thus."