| Roderigo | “Tush, never tell me! I take it much unkindly that thou, Iago, who has had my purse as it the strings were thine, shouldst know.” | 
| Iago | ” This countercaster, he, in good time, must his lietenant be, And I- gloss bless the mark!- his moorship ancient.” | 
| Iago | “Tis the course of service, preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.” | 
| Iago | “I follow him to serve my turn upon him.” | 
| Iago | “I am not what i am” | 
| Brabantio | ” The worser welcome. I have charged thee no to haunt about my doors. I honest plainess thou hast heard me say, my daughter is not for thee” | 
| Brabantio | “Thou art a villian” | 
| Iago | “Though i do hate him as i do Hell pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out of flag and sign of love, which is need a sign.” | 
| Brabantio | ” Oh heaven, how got she out? Oh, treason of blood! Fathers, from hence trust your daughter’s minds.” | 
| Iago | ” Yet do i hold in very stuff o’ the conscience to do not contrived murder.” | 
| Othello | “Let him do his spite. My services which i have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints.” | 
| Othello | “My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?” | 
| Iago | “By Janus I think not.” | 
| Othello | “Keep up four bright swords for the dew will rust them.” | 
| Barbantio | ” O thou, foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? Damned as thou art, tho has inchanted her.” | 
| Barbantio | “She is abused, stol’n from me and corrupted by spells and medicines brought of montebacks.” | 
| Othello | ” Rude am I in speech, and little blest with the soft phrase of peace.” | 
| Brabantio | ” A maiden never bold, of spirits so still and quiet that her motion blushed at herself, and she- in spite of nature, of years, of country, credit everything- To fall in love with what she feared to look on.” | 
| Othello | “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and i loved her that she did pity them.” | 
| Brabantio | “Come hither moor, I never do give thee that with all my heart which, but thou has already, with all my heart i would keep thee.” | 
| Duke | “To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is to the next way to draw new mischief.” | 
| Desdemonia | “That I did love the Moor to live with him.” | 
| Othello | “So please your grace, my ancient, a man he is honesty and trust, to his conveyance i assign my wife.” | 
| Brabantio | “Look to her, moor, it thou hast eyes to see. She has decieved her father, and may thee.” | 
| Othello | “My life upon her faith.” | 
| Iago | ” When she is sated with his body, she will find the error in her choice.” | 
| Iago | ” I hate the Moor, and it is though abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office.” | 
| Iago | “The moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so.” | 
Othello Act 1 quotes
 July 13, 2019