“My lord shall never rest, / I’ll watch him tame and talk hi out of patience; / His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift” | Desdemona to Cassio about Cassio’s job |
“Cassio, my lord? No, sure I cannot thing it / That he would steal away so guilty-like, / seeing you coming” | Iago to Othello about Cassio walking away from Desdemona when he sees them coming |
“By heaven, he echoes me / as if there were some monster in his thought/ Too hideous to be shown” | Othello to Iago about his hinting |
“O beware, my Lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / the meat it feeds on” | Iago to Othello about jealousy |
“She did deceive her father, marrying you” | Iago to Othello about Desdemona |
“I am glad I have found this napkin: / This was her first remembrance from the Moor” | Emilia to self about finding the handkerchief |
“Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ” | Iago to self about the napkin |
“Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars / That makes ambition virtue- O farewell!” | Othello to Iago about Desdemona |
“Tis true. There’s magic in the web of it” | Othello talking about the Handkerchief |
“Tis not a year or two shows us a man. / They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; / They eat us hungrily, and when they are full, / They belch us” | Emilia to Desdemona about men |
“But jealous souls will not be answer’d so. / They are no ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they’re jealous. Tis a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.” | Emilia to Desdemona about jealousy |
I do perceive here a divided duty; / To you I am bound for life and education,” | Desdemona to her father about her husband |
“Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see: She has deceiv’d her father and may thee” | Brabantio to Othello about Desdemona’s deception |
“I will incontinently drown myself” | Roderigo about killing himself |
“Cassio’s a proper man: let me see now; / To get his place and to plume up my will / In double knavery. How? How? Let’s see” | Iago to self about how to get rid of Cassio |
“Come on, Come on; you are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewivery, and housewives in your beds” | Iago to Desdemona and Emilia about women |
“O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say you, cassio, is he not a most profane and liberal counselor?” | Desdemona to Emilia about Iago |
“With as little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio” | Iago to self about Cassio touching Desdemona’s hand |
“But Ill set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as i am” | Iago to self about untuning Othello and Desdemona’s love |
“Do not thing, gentlemen, I am drunk… i am not drunk now, i can stand well enough, and i speak well enough.” | Cassio about being drunk |
“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth / Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio” | Iago to Montano about Cassio’s fight |
Othello
August 14, 2019