| Othello | Act 1 Scene 2: ‘But that I love the gentle Desdemona’Act 1 Scene 3: ‘She lov’d me for the dangers I had pass’d,And I lov’d her that she did pity them.”My life upon her faith!’Act 2 Scene 1: ‘O, my fair warrior!”If after ever tempest come such calms,may the winds blow till they have waken’d death’Act 3 Scene 3: ‘But I do love thee; and when I love thee not,Chaos is come again.”I’ll see before I doubt.”I do not think but Desdemona’s honest”Haply for I am black,And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declin’d into the vale of years”O curse of marriage,That we can call these delicate creatures oursAnd not their appetites!”Her name, that was as freshAs Dian’s visage, is now begrim’d and blackAs mine own face.”I’ll tear her all to pieces!”O blood, blood, blood!’Act 4 Scene 1: ‘The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.”Lie with her? Lie on her !”HE FALLS IN A TRANCE’Devil!’HE STRIKES HERAct 4 Scene 2: ‘This is a subtle *****,A closet lock and key of villainous secrets:And yet she’ll kneel and pray.”Are not you a strumpet”I took you for that cunning ***** of Venice.’Act 5 Scene 2: ‘Yet she must die, or else she’ll betray more men.”Put out the light, and then put out the light.”So sweet was ne’er so fatal.’HE SMOTHERS HER’Whip me, ye devils’ |
| Desdemona | Act 2 Scene 1: ‘My dear Othello!’Act 3 Scene 3: ‘His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift.”Heaven keep that monster from Othello’s mind.’Act 4 Scene 1: ‘My lord?’Act Scene 2: ‘Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?”O heaven forgive us!’Act 4 Scene 3: ‘That there be women who doth abuse their husbands in such gross kind?”I do not think there is any such woman.’Act 5 Scene 2: ‘That death’s unnatural that kills for loving.”A guiltless death I die.”Nobody; I myself.’ |
| Iago | Act 1 Scene 1: ‘An old lack ramIs tupping your white ewe.”I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.’Act 1 Scene 3: ‘Put money in thy purse.’Act 2 Scene You rise to play and go to bed to work.”Her eye must be fed.”To give satiety a fresh appetite.”The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,Is of a constant, loving, noble nature.’Act 2 Scene 3: ‘And I’ll warrant her full of game.”Even as her appetite shall play the G-d.”I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear.”So will I turn her virtue into pitch.’Act 3 Scene 3: ‘O beware, my lord, of jealousy:It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.”Look to your wife.”Wear your eye thus.’Act 4 Scene 1:’Breaks out into savage madness.”Think every bearded fellow that’s but yok’d.’Act 5 Scene 1: ENTER IAGO WITH A LIGHTAct 5 Scene 2: ‘IAGO STABS EMILIA FROM BEHIND(says very little in last scene) |
| Emilia | Act 3 Scene 4: ‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;They eat us hungerly, and when they are full,They belch us.”They are not ever jealous for the cause,But jealous for they’re jealous. ‘Tis a monster.’Act 4 Scene 2: ‘Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.’Act 4 Scene 3: ”But I do think it is their husbands’ faultsIf wives do fall.”Let husbands knowTheir wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,And have palates both for sweet and sourAs husbands have.”And have we not affections,Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have.’Act 5 Scene 1: ‘O fie upon thee, strumpet!’Act 5 Scene 2: ‘O, the more angel she,And you the blacker devil!’ |
| Cassio | Act 2 Scene 1: ‘The riches of the ship is come on shore!’Act 2 Scene 3: ‘Indeed she is a most fresh and delicate creature.”An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest.’HE STRIKES RODERIGO’Reputation, reputation, reputation!’Act 4 Scene 1: ‘She haunts me in every place.”How now, my sweet Bianca! How now, how now!’Act 5 Scene 2: ‘Most heathenish and most gross!”To you, lord governor,Remains the censure of this hellish villain’ |
| Bianca | … |
| Brabantio | … |
| Roderigo | … |
Othello Quotes by Character
September 5, 2019