| “I hate the Moor/ And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets / He has done my office” | Iago |
| “‘Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners .. the power and .. authority of this lies in our wills” | Iago speaking to roderigo |
| “Nothing can or shall content my soul / Till I am even’d with him,wife for wife” | Iago |
| “Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk… this is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk now, I can stand right enough ,,” | Cassio |
| “How now, ho! From when ariseth this? ..put by this Barbarous brawl” | Othello |
| “I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth / Than I should do offense to Michael Cassio “ | Iago |
| “For whiles this honest fool / Plies Desdemona to repair his fortune,/ I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear / That she repeals for her body’s lust” | Iago |
| “Iago is most honest” | Othello |
| “My blood begins my safer guides to rule,/And passion, having my best judgement collied,/ Assays to lead the way. | Othello |
| “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got/without merit and lost without deserving.” | Iago |
| “O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no/name to be known by, let us call thee devil!” | Cassio |
| “Dangerous conceits are in their nature poison | Iago |
| “It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” | Iago |
| “Who steals my purse steals trash.” | Iago |
| “Men should be what they seem;/Or those that be not, should they might seem none!” | Iago |
| “Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do/ all my abilities in thy behalf” | Desdemona |
| “Cassio, my lord. No, sure, I cannot think it,/ that he would steal away so guilty-like,/ Seeing you coming” | Iago |
| “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,/ Is the immediate jewel ../ Who steals my purse steals trash ..” | Iago |
| “She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief / Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,” | Othello |
| “I have found this napkin .. My wayward husband hath a hundred times/ Woo’d me to steal it; but she so loves the token “ | Emilia |
Othello quotations & speakers- Act II & III
September 4, 2019