English - Othello quotes

"Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership."

Iago

"I am not what I am."

Iago

"The worser welcome. I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors."

Brabantio

"What tell'st thou me of robbing? This is Venice. My house is not a grange."

Brabantio

"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."

Iago

"...that your fair daughter..."

Roderigo

"...gross clasps of a lascivious Moor..."

Roderigo

"Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt, tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself."

Roderigo

"Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love - which is indeed but sign."

Iago

"I love the gentle Desdemona"

Othello

"Of such a thing as though - to fear, not to delight!"

Brabantio

"That thou hast practiced on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motions."

Brabantio

"Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor."

First Senator

"Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you agains tthe general enemy Ottoman."

Duke

"My daughter! Oh my daughter!"

Brabantio

"Dead?"

First Senator

"Ay, to me. She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought to mountebanks."

Brabantio

"Here is the man - this Moor..."

Brabantio

"Send for the lady to the Sagittary and let her speak of me before her father. If you do find me foul in her report, the trust, the office I do hold of you, not only take away, but let your sentence even fall upon my life."

Othello

"Her father loved me, oft invited me, still questioned me the story of my life from year to year - the battles, sieges, fortunes that I have passed."

Othello

"And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence..."

Othello

"Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"

Othello

"She'd come again, and with a greedy ear devour up my discourse."

Othello

"And often did beguile her of her tears when I did speak of some distressful stroke that my youth suffered. My story being done, she gave me for my pain a world of sighs. She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strage. 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful."

Othello

"I think this tale would win my daughter, too."

Duke

"My noble father, I do perceive her a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education."

Desdemona

"But here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord.

Desdemona

"God be with you! I have done. Please it your Grace, on to the state affairs. I had rather to adopt a child than get it."

Brabantio

"I am glad at soul I have no other child."

Brabantio

"That I did love the Moor to live with him''

Desdemona

"Let her have your voice."

Othello

"At nine i' th' morning here we'll meet again. Othello, leave some officer behind and he shall our commission bring to you, with such things else of quality and respect as doth import you."

Duke

"A man he is of honesty and trust."

Othello

"And, noble signior, 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

"My life upon her faith!"

Othello

"I have looked upon the world for four times seven years..."

Iago

"Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!"

Iago

"Fill thy purse with money!"

Iago

"I'll sell all my land."

Roderigo

"But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, and it is thought abrod that 'twixt my sheet 'has done my office. I know not if 't be true..."

Iago

"The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so..."

Iago

"I have 't. It is endangered. Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light."

Iago

"She that I spake of, our great captain's captain."

Cassio

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

Cassio

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

Iago

"O, my fair warrior!"

Othello

"O, my soul's joy!"

Othello

"If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy."

Othello

"The heavens forbid but that our loves and comforts should increase even as our days to grow!"

Desdemona

"Amen to that."

Othello

"The Turks are drowned."

Othello

"Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. I have found great love amongst them."

Othello

"Good Iago, go to the bay and disembark my coffers."

Othello

"Come Desdemona, once more, well met at Cyprus."

Othello

"First, I must tell thee this: Desdemona is directly in love with him."

Iago

"With him? Why, 'tis not possible."

Roderigo

"Favor, sympathy, in years, manners, and beauties, all which the Moor is defective in."

Iago

"I cannot believe that in her. She's full of most blessed condition."

Roderigo

"I'll not be far from you. Do you find some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or from what other course you please, which the time shall more favorably minister."

Iago

"Sir, he's rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you. Provoke him that he may, for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny."

Iago

"I will do this, if you can bring it to any opportunity."

Roderigo

"Iago is most honest."

Othello

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

Othello

"She's a most exquisite lady."

Cassio

"She is indeed perfection."

Cassio

"Not tonight, Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment."

Cassio

"If I can fasten, but one cup upon him with that which he hath drunk tonight already, he'll be as full of quarrel and offense as my young mistress' dog."

Iago

"You see this fellow that is gone before"

Iago

"And do but see his vice"

Iago

"'Tis pity of him. I fear the trust Othello puts him in, on some odd time of his infirmity, will shake this island."

Iago

"It were well the General were put in mind of it. Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio and looks not on his evils. Is not this true?"

Montano

"And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor should hazard such a place as his own second with one of an engraffed infirmity."

Montano

"I do love Cassio well and would do much help to cure him of his evil..."

Iago

"Go out and cry a mutiny."

Iago

"Zounds, I bleed still. I am hurt to th' death. He dies!"

Montano

"Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this? Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?"

Othello

"Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger. Your officer Iago can inform you, while I spare speech, which something now offends me."

Montano

"Now, by heaven, my blood begins my safer guides to rule, and passion, having my best judgment collied, assays to lead the way."

Othello

"Reputation! Reputation! Reputation! O I have lost my reputation!"

Cassio

"'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began 't?"

Othello

"Touch me not so near. I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offense to Michael Cassio. Yet I persuade myself, to speak the truth shall nothing wrong him."

Iago

"Cassio, I love thee, but nevermore be officer of mine."

Othello

"Come, Desdemona. 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."

Othello

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!"

Cassio

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"

Cassio

"Our general's wife is now the general."

Iago

"This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter, and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before."

Iago

"When devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows, as I do now. For while this honest fool plies Desdemona to repair his fortune."

Iago

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

Iago

"How poor are they that have not patience!"

Iago

"Away, I say! Thou shalt know more hereafter. Nay, get thee gone!"

Iago

"My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress."

Iago

"I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest."

Cassio

"Madam, not now. I am very ill at ease, unfit for mine own purposes."

Cassio

"Ha, I like not that."

Iago

"What dost thou say?"

Othello

"Nothing, my lord; or if - I know not what."

Iago

"Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?"

Othello

"Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it that he would steal away so guiltylike, seeing your coming."

Iago