othello

  • “evades them, with a bombast circumstance/Horribly stuffed with epithets of war” (1.1.12) - iago

  • “an old black ram” (1.1.87) - iago

  • “to the gross clasps of a laviscious Moor” (1.1.124) - roderigo

  • “my services, which I have done the signiory/Shall out-tongue his complaints” (1.2.19)

  • “i fetch my life and being/from men of royal siege” (1.2.21)

  • “my parts, my title and my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly” (1.2.31)

  • “thou hast enchanted her…If she in chains of magic were not bound…with foul charms…a practiser/Of arts inhibited” (1.2.63) - brabantio

  • “she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted/By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks…Sans witchcraft could not” (1.3.61) - brabantio, of desdemona

  • “Rude am I in my speech/And little blest with the soft phrase of peace” (1.3.82)

  • “the trust, the office i do hold of you/Not only take away, but let your sentence/Even fall upon my life” (1.3.119)

  • “and sold to slavery” (1.3.139)

  • “she loved me for the dangers i had passed/and I loved her that she did pity them” (1.3.168)

  • “the young affects/in me defunct, and proper satisfaction” (1.3.264)

  • “your son-in-law is far more fair than black” (1.3.291) - duke

  • “look to her, moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father, and may thee” (brabantio - 1.3.293)

  • “my life upon her faith” (1.3.295)

  • “make love’s quick pants in desdemona’s arms/give renewed fire to our extincted spirits” (2.1.80) - cassio

  • “o my fair warrior!” (2.1.179)

  • “if it were now to die/’twere now to be most happy” (2.1.187)

  • “now, by heaven/my blood begins my safer guides to rule/and passion, having my best judgemental collided” (2.3.200)

  • “i know, iago,/thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,/Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee,/But never more be officer of mine.” (2.3.243)

  • “excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul/but i do love thee! and when i love thee not/chaos is come again” (3.3.90)

  • “and for i know thou’rt full of love and honesty…therefore these stops of thine fright me the more./for such things in a false disloyal knave” (3.3.121)

  • “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on” (3.3.168) - Iago

  • “think’st thou i’d make a life of jealousy…i’ll see before i doubt, when i doubt, prove./and on the proof there is no more but this:/away at once with love or jealousy!” (3.3.180)

  • “for she had eyes and chose me” (3.3.192)

  • “not to affect many proposed matches/of her own clime, complexion and degree” (3.3.233) - iago

  • “haply for am I black/And have not those soft parts of conversation/That chamberers have, or for I am declined/Into the vale of years” (3.3.267)

  • “If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself! I’ll not believe’t.” (3.3.283)

  • “i have a pain upon my forehead, here” (3.3.288)

  • “avaunt, be gone, thou hast set me on the rack!” (3.3.338)

  • “i had been happy if the general camp/pioneers and all, had tasted her sweet body/so i had nothing known” (3.3.348)

  • “farewell: othello’s occupation’s gone” (3.3.360)

  • “i think my wife be honest, and think she is not/I think that thou art just, and think thou art not” (3.3.387)

  • “i’ll tear her all to pieces” (3.3.434)

  • “lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again.” (4.1.202)

  • “good, good, the justice of it pleases; very good!” (4.1.206)

  • “this is a subtle whore/a closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets;/ and yet she’ll kneel and pray, i have seen her do’t” (4.2.22)

  • “yet I’ll not shed her blood/Not scar that whiter skin of hers than snow/And smooth as monumental alabaster/Yet she must die” (5.2.3)

  • “o balmy breath, that dost almost persuade/justice to break her sword! once more, once more/be thus when thou art dead and I will kill thee/and love thee after. once more, and that’s the last./so sweet was ne’er so fatal.” (5.2.16)

  • “methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/of sun and moon” (5.2.98)

  • “she’s like a liar gone to burning hell:/’twas i that killed her” (5.2.127)

  • “when you shall these unlucky deeds relate/speak of me as i am. nothing extenuate/nor set down aught in malice. then must you speak/of one that loved not wisely, but too well/of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought/perplexed in the extreme” (5.2.339)

    • wishes to save reputation, pride