Othello Act 4 and 5 quotes

“A horned man’s a monster and a beast.”

Said by: Othello

In response to: Iago

“Strange [Desdemona] in her bed/even if the bed she hath contaminated.”

Said by: Iago

To: Othello

“…this would not be believed in Venice.”

Said by: Lodovico

“If any wretch has put this in your head, / Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse/ For if she be honest, chaste, and true, There’s no man happy.”

Said by: Emilia

To: Othello

“Hath…forsook so many noble matches,/ Her father and her country and her friends./To be called “whore”

Said by: Emilia

To: Iago

About: Desdemona

“Will be hanged if some eternal villian,/Some busy and insuiating rogue,/Some cogginig, cozening slave, to get some has not devised this slander.”

Said by: Emilia

About: Why anyone would accuse Desdemona of infidelity.

“Strumpet, I come/Forth of my heart those charms. thine eyes, are blotted./Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.”

Said by: Othello

Speaking to: Desdemona

“Put out the light and then put out the light.”

Said by: Othello

“When I have plucked the rose,/ I cannot give it vital growth again,.It must wither.”

Said by: Othello

“I must weep,/ but they are cruel tears.”

Said by: Othello

“O, perjured women, thou does stone my heart/ And mak’st me call what I intend to do/A murder, which I thought a sacrifice.”

Said by: Othello

“O falsely, falsely murdered…A guiltless death I die.”

Said by: Desdemona

“Nobody. I myself. Farewell/Commend me to my kind lord.”

Said by: Desdemona

To: Emilia

“O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.”

Said by: Emilia

To : Othello

“I will not charm my tounge. I am bound to speak.

Said by: Emilia

To: Iago

“I will speak as liberal as the notth./ Let heaven and men and devils, let them all/All, all cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.”

Said by: Emilia
To: Iago

“I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable.—/If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee.”

Said by: Othello

“O, Sparatan dog../Look at the tragic unloading of this bed,/This is thy work.”

Said by: Lodovico