Act 1 Quotes

Scene 1

‘I know my price, I am worth no worse a place’ - Iago

‘One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,

A fellow almost damn’d in a fair wife,

That never set a squadron in the field.’ - Iago

‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him’ - Iago

‘I am not what I am’ - Iago

‘an old black ram

is tupping your white ewe’ - Iago

‘I must show out a flag and sign of love,

which is indeed but sign’ - Iago

Scene 2

‘But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my unhoused free condition

Put into circumscription and confine

For the seas’ worth.’ - Othello

‘My parts, my title, and my perfect soul

Shall manifest me rightly’ - Othello

‘O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter?

Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her’ - Brabantio

Scene 3

‘valient Moor’ - 1 Senator

‘She is abus’d, stol’n from me’ - Brabantio

‘To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on!’ - Brabantio

‘She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d;

And I lov’d her that she did pity them.’ - Othello

‘I think this tale would win my daughter too’ - Duke

‘That I did love the Moor to live with him,

My downright violence and storm of fortunes

My trumpet to the world.’ - Desdemona