Othello Key Quotes

Though I do…

hate him as I do hell pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a glad and sign of love (Iago, betrayal)

My noble…

father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. (Desdemona, loyalty)

Let heaven…

and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak (Emilia, defiance)

Then you…

must speak, Of one that loved not wisely but too well (Othello, love)

I kissed…

thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss (Othello, love)

Ay…

let her rot, and perish and be damned tonigh, for she shall not live. No, my heart is turned to stone. (Othello, betrayal)

All my…

fond love thus do I blow to heaven. Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell! (Othello, betrayal)

I am…

not what I am (Iago, betrayal)

I do prove… (Othello, infidelity)

her haggard, though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind

The cannibals… (Othello)

that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Grew beneath their shoulders

Run from… (Brabantio, Desdemona)

her guardage to the sooty bosom

Not poppy… (Iago, plotting about Othello)

nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday.

'Tis done… (Iago, about killing Cassio & Desdemona)

at your request. But let her live.

Damn her… (Othello, Desdemona)

damn her! Damn her!

O devil, devil! (Othello, Desdemona)

If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile

Look down… (Othello, Iago)

towards his feet- but that’s a fable

Demand me… (Iago)

nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.