| Everything Othello does I will mention Cassio’s desires.(Desdemona) | I’ll intermingle everything he does with Cassio’s suit. |
| I cannot understand why Cassio would look so guilty when seeing you.(Iago) | Cassio my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it, that he would sneak away so guilty-like, seeing you coming. |
| I love you now but if I ever don’t love you there will be chaos.(Othello) | But I do love thee and when I love thee not, chaos come again. |
| Iago will not tell me what he is thinking as if he has a thought so horrible he cannot tell me.(Othello) | As if there were some monster in his thought too hideous to be shown! |
| Men should be what they are like. (Othello) | Men should be what they seem. |
| A person’s name is the most important part of them.(Othello) | Good name in man and woman…is the immediate jewel of their souls. |
| Beware of jealousy!(Iago) | O beware my lord of jealousy! It is the green ey’d monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. |
| Before I doubt her I will observe her and when I doubt I will find evidence and with this evidence I will cast aside love and jealousy. (Othello) | I’ll see before I doubt, when I doubt prove, and on this proof there is no more but this, away at once with love or jealousy! |
| She deceived her father when she married you and when she should have been scared of you, she loved you more.(Iago) | She did deceive her father marrying you. And when she seemed to shake and fear your looks, she lov’d them most. |
| Othello’s confidence falls. | For I am black and have not those soft parts of conversations that chamberers have or for I am declin’d into the value of years. |
| My husband begged me to steal this handkerchief.(Emilia) | This was her first remembrance from the Moor. My wayward husband hath a hundred times woo’d me to steal it. |
| Small items are to jealous people solid proof.(Iago) | Trifles light as air are to the jealous proof as strong as holy writ. The Moor ever changes with my poison. |
| You are torturing me.(Othello) | Thou hast set me on the rack. |
| Othello shows his confusion. | I think my wife be honest and I think she is not. I think that thou art just and think thou art not. |
| I will tear her apart.(Othello begins to use harsh language.) | I’ll tear her all to pieces. |
| Arise anger and let love surrender its power and seat in the hart to hate. | Arise black vengeance from thy hollow cell. Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate. |
| Iago has got his promotion. | Now art thou my lieutenant. |
Othello Quotes Act 3 Scene 3
August 2, 2019