| “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve” | Iago |
| “Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds” | Brabantio |
| “That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,Make love’s quick pants in Desdemona’s arms,Give renew’d fire to our extinct spirits,And bring all Cyprus comfort” | Cassio |
| “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 counsellor?” | Desdemona |
| “To give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners and beauties: all which the Moor is defective in” | Iago |
| “I will do this, if you can bring it to any opportunity.” | Roderigo |
| “And ’tis great pity that the noble MoorShould hazard such a place as his own secondWith one of an ingraft infirmity” | Montano |
| “Are we turn’d Turks, and to ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?” | Othello |
| “But men are men; the best sometimes forget. Though Cassio did some little wrong to himAs men in rage strike those that wish them best” | Iago |
| “Reputation, reputation, reputation!” | Cassio |
| “I will bestow you where you shall have time To speak your bosom freely.” | Emilia |
| “Bounteous Madam,Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,He’s never anything but your true servant.” | Cassio |
| “I think thou dost;And for I know thou’rt full of love and honesty,And weights’ thy words before thou giv’st them breath,Therefore theses tops of thine fright me the more; For such things in a false disloyal knaveAre tricks of custom; but in a man that’s just,They’re close dilations, working from the heart, That passion cannot rule.” | Othello |
| “O beware, my lord, of jealousy:It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in blissWho certain of his fate loves not his wronger;But O, what damned minutes tells he o’erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves?” | Iago |
| “He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen,Let him not know’t and he’s not robbed at all.” | Othello |
| “Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone” | Othello |
| “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 |
| “My lord is not my lord, nor should I know him,Were he in favor as in humor alter’d” | Desdemona |
| “Work on,My medicine, work!” | Iago |
| “Is this the noble Moor whom our full senateCall all-in-all sufficient?” | Lodovico |
| “Get you to bed on th’instant. I will be returned forthwith. Dismiss your attendant there. Look’t be done.” | Othello |
| “My love doth so approve him that even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns-prithee unpin me- have grace and favor in them.” | Desdemona |
| “Tis he. Oh, brave Iago, honest and just,That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Thou teaches me.” | Othello |
| “O damn’d Iago! O inhumane dog!” | Roderigo |
| “But once put out thy light, Thou cunning’s pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.” | Othello |
| “This sorrow’s heavenly; It strikes where it doth love.” | Othello |
| “That’s he that was Othello: Here I am.” | Othello |
| “Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely, but too well” | Othello |
| Alacrity | cheerful willingness |
| Beguile | to deceive |
| Voluble | smooth-tongued |
| Lown | rascal, rogue |
| Rout | uproar |
| Boon | a personal favor |
| Vehement | forceful, passionate, or intense; showing strong feeling |
| vice | fault, defect |
| sybil | female prophet or witch |
| construe | to interpret a word or action in a particular way |
| checks | rebukes |
| censure | sentencing |
| gait | a manner of walking |
| portents | bad signs or warnings |
Othello Quotes and Vocab
July 6, 2019