Act 2 Quotes

Scene 1

‘I have lost him on a dangerous sea!’ - Cassio

‘Has had most favourable and happy speed’ - Cassio

‘you are pictures out a-doors,

bells in your parlour,

wildcats in your kitchen,

saints in your injuries,

devils being offended,

players in your huswifery,

and huswives in your bed’ - Iago

‘You rise to play, and go to bed to work’ - Iago

‘My soul hath her content so absolute

That not another comfort like to this

Succeeds in an unknown fate’ - Othello

‘If she has been blest, she would have never lov’d the Moor’ - Iago

‘The Moor

Is of a constant, loving, noble nature;’

‘I do suspect the lustful Moor,

Hath leap’d into my seat;’

‘nothing can nor shall content my soul

Till I am even’d with him, wife for wife;’

‘For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too;’ - Iago

Scene 3

‘Iago is most honest’ - Othello

‘I’ll warrant her, full of game’ - Iago

‘She is indeed perfection’ - Cassio

‘I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking’ - Cassio

‘I’ll do’t; but it dislikes me’ - Cassio

‘I fear the trust Othello puts him in’ - Iago

‘My blood begins my safer guides to rule;’ - Othello

‘Reputation! I have lost my reputation!

I have lost the immoral part of myself,

and what remains is bestial’ - Cassio

‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear -

That she repeals him for her body’s lust;’ - Iago

‘So will I turn her virtue into pitch;

And out of her own goodness make the net

That shall enmesh them all.’ - Iago