Othello quotes Ea Qcaa

Quotes for Othello

Iago (Jealousy) “… green-eyed monster …”

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

Iago to Othello (manipulation and jealousy) “I’ll pour this…”

"I'll pour this pestilence into his ear."

Iago on Othello (Gender) “Evened with…”

"Evened with Othello, wife for wife."

Iago to Brabantio on Othello (racism, jealousy) “…white ewe”

"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe."

Emilia to Desdemonda on Othello (jealousy) “But jealous souls…”

"But jealous souls will not be answered."

Iago to Roderigo (manipulation, irony, deception) “… not what I am”

"I am not what I am."

Othello's last words (relationship, love, tragic ending) ‘Killing myself…”

"Killing myself, to die upon a kiss."

Othello to Iago (irony, manipulation) “I am bound…”

"I am bound to thee forever."

Othello to Iago (irony, manipulation) “Honest…”

"Honest Iago."

Othello to Desdemonda (relationship, love) “If it twere…”

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

Othello (love, relationship) “But that I…”

"But that I love the gentle Desdemona."

Iago (appearance vs reality) “Men should…”

"Men should be what they seem."

Cassio mutering to himself after Iago's instigation (manipulation, deception) “Reputation, reputation, reputation…”

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

Brabantio to Othello (deception, manipulation) “…and may thee”

“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee.”

Iago on Othello (loyalty, trust, racism) “I hate the Moor…”

“I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets He’s done my office”

Iago on Othello “Not poppy…”

“Not poppy nor mandragora nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedest yesterday”

Othello to Iago “I think my wife…”

“I think my wife be honest, and think she is not, I think that thou art just, and think thou art not”

Othello on Desdemona “… put out the light”

“Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light!”

Iago “Demand me nothing…”

“Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.”

Othello on Desdemona “She loved me for…”

“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.”

Othello on Desdemona “Then you must speak…”

“Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well;”

Othello on Desdemona “My life…”

“My life upon her faith”

Othello “Rude am I …”

“Rude am I in my speech”

Iago on jealousy “I know my price…”

“I know my price, I am worth no worse a place”

Iago on Desdemona “… make the net”

“And out of her own goodness make the net”

Othello on Iago “my ancient …”

“My ancient: a man he is of honesty and trust.”

Iago to Brabantio “… the beast with two backs”

“Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

Iago on Desdemona “Blessed fig’s-end!…”

“Blessed fig’s-end! The wine she drinks is made of grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never have loved the Moor.”

Iago on reputation “Reputation is an idle…”

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”

Iago to Othello “Look to your wife…”

“Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio.”

Emelia on Iago “I am nothing…”

“I am nothing but to please his fantasy.”

Desdemona on Othello “My noble Moor…”

“My noble Moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are.”

Iago on jealousy “Trifles light…”

“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”

Iago on Othello “Dangerous conceits…”

“Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons.”

Othello on Desdemona “…Cuckold me!”

“I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!”

Emelia on men “They eat us…”

“They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us.”

Iago on Desdemona “Strangle her…”

“Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.”

Emelia on Othello “… the blacker devil”

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

Iago to Othello “Good name…”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

Iago to Othello “Who steals my purse…”

“Who steals my purse steals trash. ’Tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

Iago to Roderigo “Come, be a man…”

“Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.”

Iago to Desdemona and Emelia “You rise…”

“You rise to play and go to bed to work.”

Iago to Cassio “Our general’s…”

“Our general’s wife is now the general.”

Iago elite rage bait to Desdemona and Emelia “You are pictures…”

“You are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.”

First Senator to Othello “Adieu, brave…”

“Adieu, brave Moor; use Desdemona well.”

Brabantio on Desdemona “Dead? / Ay, to me…”

“Dead? / Ay, to me. She is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks.”

Brabantio to Othello “To fall in…”

“To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on? It is a judgement maim’d.”