OTHELLO QUOTES

BY

NEWLEAF99

Themes that will be covered:

1 Jealousy 2 Love

3 Obsession and Paranoia 4 Power and Class

5 Women and Sexuality 6 Race and Prejudice

7 Men and Reputation 8 Duality and Deception

9 Good V Bad 10

11 12

Act 1 Scene 1

Iago

 I know my price, I am worth no worse a place

 Mere prattle without practice in his soldiership
 Preferment goes by letter and affection
 We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed
 Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago/ In following him I follow but myself
 I am not what I am
 Thieves, thieves, thieves!/ Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
 Zounds, sir, you’re robbed, for shame put on your gown!
 An old black ram is tupping your white ewe!
 Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs
Roderigo

 What a full fortune does the thicklips owe..?

Brabantio

 This is Venice: My house is not a grange

 Thou art a villain
 This accident is not unlike my dream
 O, she deceives me
 Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds/ By what you see them act

Act 1 Scene 2

Iago

 I lack iniquity
 Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack:/ If it prove lawful prize

Othello

 I have done the signiory

 But that I love the gentle Desdemona
 I would not my unhoused free condition/ Put into circumscription and confine/ For the
sea’s worth.
 Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them

Brabantio

 Down with him, thief!

 Damned as thou art
 Thou hast enchanted her
 Maid so tender fair and happy
 Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom/ Of such a thing as thou?
 Abused her delicate youth with drugs and minerals
  I therefore...do attach thee/ For an abuser of the world

Act 1 Scene 3

Duke

 Valiant Othello
 Gentle signior
 Your son-in-law is far more fair than black

Brabantio

 She is abused, stolen from me and corrupted

 She, in spite of nature...credit, everything/ To fall in love with what she feared to look
on?
 Against all rules of nature
 Gentle mistress
 Where most you owe obedience?
 She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Othello

 Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors

 My very noble and approved good masters
 Rude am I in my speech/ And little blest with the soft phrase of peace
 I won his daughter
 Make head against my estimation

Desdemona

 So much duty...Due to the Moor my lord

 A moth of peace

Iago
  Come, be a man!
 Put money in thy purse
 Cassio’s a proper man
 The Moor is of a free and open nature/ That thinks men honest that but seem to be so

Act 2 Scene 1

Cassio

 He hath achieved a maid/ That paragons description and wild fame

 The divine Desdemona
 Our great captain’s captain
 The riches of the ship
 Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,/ That I extend my manners; ‘tis my breeding
 Relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar

Iago

 You are pictures out of doors...wild-cats in your kitchens/ Players in your

housewifery, and housewives in.../Your beds!
 You rise to play, and go to bed to work
 O, you are well tuned mow: but I’ll set down/ The pegs that make this music, as
honest/ As I am
 Telling her fantastical lies
 The lusty Moor/ Hath leapt into my seat
 Wife for wife
 Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb
 Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me

Othello

 O my fair warrior!
 If it were now to die/ ‘Twere now to be most happy
 Act 2 Scene 3

Iago

 He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar

 But men are men, the best sometimes forget
 Reputation is an idle and most false imposition
 You have lost no reputation at all
 Our general’s wife is now the general
 She is of free, so kind, so apt, so blest a disposition
 I will turn her virtue into pitch

Othello

 Honest Iago

Cassio

 Reputation, reputation, reputation!

 I have lost the immoral part of myself-and what remains is bestial.
 Honest Iago

Montano

 Noble Moor
 Worthy Othello

Act 3 Scene 1

Cassio

 Virtuous Desdemona
  Give me advantage of some brief discourse/ With Desdemon alone

Iago

 I’ll devise a mean to draw the Moor/ Out of the way

Act 3 Scene 3

Desdemona

 His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift

 Whatever you be, I am obedient.

Iago

 Ha, I like not that

 Men should be what they seem/ Or those that be not, would they might seem none.
 Who steals my purse steals trash
 O beware, my lord, of jealousy!/ It is the green-eyed monster
 Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio
 It is a common thing
 A good wench, give it to me
 Go, leave me
 Nay, yet be wise, she may be honest yet.
 But let her live.

Othello

 Some monster in thy thought/ Too hideous to be shown

 Certain, men should be what they seem
 I am bound to the for ever.
 She’s gone, I am abused and my relief/ Must be to lathe her
 I swear ‘tis better to be abused/ Than but to know’t a little
 Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,/ I’ll not endure it
  Give me a living reason she’s disloyal
 I’ll tear her to pieces!

Act 3 Scene 4

Othello

 Hot, hot, and moist

 For here’s a young and sweating devil
 Conserved of maidens’ hearts

Emilia

 They are all but stomachs, and we all but food

 They eat us hungerly, and when they are full/ They belch us
 But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster/ Begot upon itself, born on itself

Desdemona

 My advocation is not now in tune

 My lord is not my lord

Act 4 Scene 1

Iago

 Or to be naked with her friend in bed/ An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
 A venial slip
 Her honour...They have it very oft that they have it not
 Work on, My medicine, work!
 Savage madness
 There’s many a beast then in a populous city,/ And many a civil monster.
 Good sir, be a man
  Mark his gesture
 Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
 Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed

Othello

 It is hypocrisy against the devil

 Lie with her? Lie on her?
 Handkerchief! Confessions! Handkerchief!
 A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!
 For she shall not live
 O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!

Act 4 Scene 2

Othello

 Public commoner
 Impudent strumpet

Iago

 Do not weep, do not weep: alas the day!

Act 4 Scene 3

Desdemona

 There be women do abuse their husbands/ In such gross kind?

 Beshrew me, if I do such a wrong/ For the whole world!

Emilia

 I might do it as well in the dark

 The world’s a huge thing: it is a great price/ For a small vice
 But I do think it is their husbands’ faults, / If wives do fall
  Let husbands know/ Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,/ And have
their palates both for sweet and sour/ As husbands have
 The ills we do, their ills instruct us so

Act 5 Scene 1

Iago

 Every way makes my gain

 This is the fruits of whoring
 This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite

Othello

 O brave Iago
 Strumpet, I come
 Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted

Act 5 Scene 2

Othello

 It is the cause, it is the cause

 Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men
 Put out the light, and then put out the light
 My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.
 Then must you speak/ Of one that loved not wisely, but too well

Desdemona

 A guiltless death I die