Othello quotes
Number | Act | Character | Quote | Theme | Literary devices |
1 | 1.1 | Iago | I follow him to serve my turn upon him |
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| But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. |
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| I am not what I am. |
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4 |
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| Poison his delight…incense her kinsmen…Plague him with flies |
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5 |
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| An old black ram is tupping your white ewe |
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6 |
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| You'll have your nephew neigh to you |
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7 |
| Brabantio | Fathers. From hence trust not your daughters' minds by what you see them act. |
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8 |
| Iago | …the devil will make a grandsire of you |
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9 |
| Roderigo | Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger |
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10 | 1.2 | Othello | My life and being from men of royal siege…' |
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11 |
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| My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly |
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12 |
| Iago | He tonight hath boarded a land carrack; if it prove lawful prize |
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13 |
| Brabantio | Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing a thou - to fear, not to delight |
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14 |
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| Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion |
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15 |
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| For if such actions may have passage free, bondslave and pagans shall our statesmen be |
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16 |
| 1 Senator | 'Tis a pageant to keep us in false gaze |
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17 |
| Othello | She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them |
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18 |
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| She wished that heaven had made her such a man |
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19 |
| The duke | You're son-in-law is far more fair than black |
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20 |
| Brabantio | If thou has eyes to see, she has deceived her farther and may thee |
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21 |
| Othello | My life upon her faith! |
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22 |
| Iago | Our bodies are our gardens , to which our wills are gardeners |
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23 |
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| I hate the Moor… He's done my office |
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24 |
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| Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light |
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25 | 2.1 | Iago | With as little a web as this I will ensnare a great fly… |
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26 |
| Othello | O my fair warrior |
| Oxymoron |
27 |
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| If it were now to die… my soul hath her content so absolute |
| Foreshadowing/irony/prophetic |
28 | 2.3 |
| The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue |
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29 |
| Iago | If consequence do but approve my dream, my boat sails freely, both with wind and stream |
| Rhyming couplet Metaphor |
30 |
| Iago | I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Micheal Cassio |
| Hyperbole Ironic --> bc at the end when all the harm ensues bc of Iago, he makes a vow of silence |
31 |
| Cassio | Reputation, reputation, reputation!... What remains is bestial |
| Tricolon, epizeuxis |
32 |
| Iago | Reputation is an idle and most false imposition |
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33 |
| Iago | Our general's wife in now the general |
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34 |
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| When devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows |
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35 | 3.3 | Desdemona | My lord shall never rest.. |
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36 |
| Othello | when I love thee not, chaos is come again |
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37 |
| Iago | My nature's plague to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not |
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38 |
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| Green-eyed monster which doth mock |
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39 |
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| To seel her father's eyes up close as oak |
| Smilie |
40 | 5.2 | Othello | Put out the light and then put out the light |
| Extended metaphor |
41 |
| Desdemona | Nobody; I myself. Farwell |
| Irony --> blaming herself for the death |
42 |
| Emilia | O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil |
| Metaphor, biblical allusion |
43 |
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| She was too fond of her most fithy bargain |
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44 |
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| Tis proper I obey him, but not now |
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| I will not charm my togue! |
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45 |
| Othello | O ill-starred wench! |
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46 |
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| Whip me, ye devils, from the possession of this heavenly sight |
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47 |
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| When you shall these unlucky deed relate, speak of me as I am |
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48 |
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| Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe |
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49 |
| Lodovico | The time, the place, the tortue, O, enforce it! |
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50 | 4.3 | Emilia | Their wives have sense like them It is their husbands' faults if wives do fall. |
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51 | 4.2 |
| The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave |
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52 |
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| If you think other, remove your thought… let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse |
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53 | 4.1 | Othello | If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile |
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| 3.4 | Emilia | 'They are all but stomachs and we all but food' |
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