| “I am not what I am.” | Iago, Roderigo |
| “I have charged thee not nor haunt about my doors.”Speaker:Audience: | Brabantio, Roderigo |
| “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise! / Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, / Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. / Arise, I say!” | Iago, Brabantio |
| “I am one, sire, that comes to tell you your daugh- / ter and the Moor are now making the beast with / two backs.” | Iago, Brabantio |
| “This accident is not unlike my dream. / Belief of it oppresses me already.” | Brabantio, Aside |
| “You have been hotly called for.” | Cassio, Othello |
| “Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her!” | Brabantio, Othello and the court |
| “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.This only is the witchcraft I have used.Here comes the lady. Let her witness it.” | Othello, Duke and Brabantio |
| “And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord.” | Desdemona, Brabantio |
| “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see.She has deceived her father, and may thee.” | Brabantio, Othello |
| “I will incontinently drown myself.” | Roderigo, Iago |
| “Put money in thy purse.” | Iago, Roderigo |
| “Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.” | Iago, Soliloquy |
Othello Act 1 Quotes
August 10, 2019