Othello quotes

Iago about serving Othello

I follow him to serve my turn upon him

Iago about hiding true intentions

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

Iago’s biblical allusion

I am not what I am

Iago’s plan of manipulation

Poison his delight… incense her kinsmen… Plague him with flies

Iago racist

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

Iago racist… again

You’ll have your nephews neigh to you

Brabantio about betrayal

Fathers. From hence trust not your daughters' minds by what you see them act.

Iago about Brabantio’s granchildren

…the devil will make a grandsire of you

Rodrigo about Desdemona’s marriage

Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger

Othello about his manner/reputation

My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly

Iago about Othello doing it with des

He tonight hath boarded a land carrack; if it prove lawful prize

Brabantio about Des running to othello

Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing a thou - to fear, not to delight

Brabantio about societal collapse

For if such actions may have passage free, bondslave and pagans shall our statesmen be

Othello about his love for Des

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

The duke about othello

You're son-in-law is far more fair than black

Brabantio forewarning

If thou has eyes to see, she has deceived her farther and may thee

Iago about will

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners

Why Iago hates the moor

I hate the Moor… He's done my office

Iago relying on evil to carry out his plan

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

Iago about manipulation

With as little a web as this I will ensnare a great fly…

Emilia about men

They are all but stomachs and we all but food

Othello calling Desdemona fake

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

Emilia being feminist icon

Their wives have sense like them, it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.

Lodovico final line

The time, the place, the torture, O, enforce it!

Othello about killing Des

Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe

Othello metaphor for killing des

Put out the light and then put out the light

Othello about retaining his repuation

When you shall these unlucky deed relate, speak of me as I am

Othello about his guilt

Whip me, ye devils, from the possession of this heavenly sight

Desdemona blaming herself

Nobody; I myself. Farwell

Iago making himself seem better

My nature's plague to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not

Iago planting seed of doubt

To seel her father's eyes up close as oak

Iago on reputation

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition

Iago on appearances

When devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Othello about chaos and love

when I love thee not, chaos is come again

Cassio on repuation

Reputation, reputation, reputation!... What remains is bestial

Iago preserving himself

I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Micheal Cassio

Othello on consumation

The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue

Iago on fate

If consequence do but approve my dream, my boat sails freely, both with wind and stream

Significance of handkerchief

but if she lost it or made a gift of it… should hold her loathed

Othello on vengeance

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!… For tis aspics’ tongues