| “As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.” | Roderigo Act One Scene One |
| “Despise me if I do not.” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “I know my price: I am worth no worse a place.” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “A fellow almost damned in a fair wife,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “Nor the division of a battle knows / More than a spinster – unless the bookish theoric,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.” | Roderigo Act One Scene One |
| “Why, there’s no remedy: ’tis the curse of service,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “I would not follow him then.” | Roderigo Act One Scene One |
| “Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, / Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “These fellows have some soul,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve […] I am not what I am.” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe, / If he can carry’t thus!” | Roderigo Act One Scene One |
| “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe!” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors.” | Brabantio Act One Scene One |
| “You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “I must show out a flag and sign of love,” | Iago Act One Scene One |
| “O, she deceives me” | Brabantio Act One Scene One |
| “O treason of the blood!” | Brabantio Act One Scene One |
| “good Roderigo” | Brabantio Act One Scene One |
| “I do hold it very stuff o’th’conscience / To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity” | Iago Act One Scene Two |
| “‘Tis better as it is.” | Othello Act One Scene Two |
| “And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms / Against your honour” | Iago Act One Scene Two |
| “My parts, my title and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly.” | Othello Act One Scene Two |
| “You shall more command with years / Than with your weapons.” | Othello Act One Scene Two |
| “O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? / Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her.” | Brabantio Act One Scene Two |
| “The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,” | Brabantio Act One Scene Two |
| “For if such actions may have passage free, / Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.” | Brabantio Act One Scene Two |
| “I do not so secure me in the error,” | Duke Act One Scene Three |
| “Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / Against the general enemy Ottoman.” | Duke Act One Scene Three |
| “I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior,” | Duke Act One Scene Three |
| “Her father loved me,” | Othello Act One Scene Three |
| “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them.” | Othello Act One Scene Three |
| “I do perceive here a divided duty.” | Desdemona Act One Scene Three |
| “Steel couch of war,” | Othello Act One Scene Three |
| “My downright violence and scorn of fortunes / May trumpet to the world.” | Desdemona Act One Scene Three |
| “I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,” | Desdemona Act One Scene Three |
| “to be free and bounteous to her mind” | Othello Act One Scene Three |
| “She has deceived her father, and may thee.” | Brabantio Act One Scene Three |
| “‘Virtue’? A fig! ‘Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “Put money in thy purse.” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “I hate the Moor” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “to abuse Othello’s ear,” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “framed to make women false,” | Iago Act One Scene Three |
| “this warlike isle” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “For I am nothing if not critical,” | Iago Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “I am not merry; but I do beguile / The thing I am by seeming otherwise.” | Desdemona Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “She that was ever fair, and never proud, / Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,” | Iago Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “With as little a web as this will I ensnare a great a fly as Cassio.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “If after every tempest come such calms, / May the winds blow till they have wakened death,” | Othello Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “Iago is most honest,” | Othello Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “She’s a most exquisite lady.” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “I have drunk but one cup tonight, and that was craftily qualified too,” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “And do but see his vice: / ‘Tis to his virtue a just equinox,” | Iago Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “I do love Cassio well, and would do much / To cure him of this evil.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter […] Cassio, I love thee; / But never more be officer of mine.” | Othello Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “Cassio, I love thee; / But never more be officer of mine.” | Othello Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee ‘Devil’!” | Cassio Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “So will I turn her virtue into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all.” | Iago Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “No I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.” | Clown Act 3 Scene 1 |
| “I never knew/ A Florentine more kind and honest.” | Cassio Act 3 Scene 1 |
| “I warrant it grieves my husband / As if the case were his.” | Emilia Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “He’s never anything but your true servant.” | Cassio Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “My general will forget my love and service.” | Cassio Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “I’ll intermingle everything he does / With Cassio’s suit.” | Desdemona Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “No, sure, I cannot think it, / That he would steal away so guilty-like,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “That errs in ignorance and not in cunning, / I have no judgement in an honest face.” | Desdemona Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “But I do love thee; and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “‘Honest’, my lord?” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “My lord, you know I love you.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago / If thou but think’st him wronged and mak’st his ear / A stranger to thy thoughts.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, / Is the immediate jewel of their souls,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “I’ll see before I doubt.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “She did deceive her father, marrying you,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “And yet, how nature erring from itself -“ | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Set on thy wife to observe.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “This fellow’s of exceeding honesty,” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “She’s gone; I am abused, and my relief / Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, / That we can call these delicate creatures ours.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself!” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Your napkin is too little; [He pushes the handkerchief aware, and it falls.]” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “This was her first remembrance from the Moor,” | Emilia Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “I nothing, but to please his fantasy.” | Emilia Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “To have a foolish wife.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Trifles light as air / Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “The Moor already changes with my poison.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Avaunt, be gone: thou hast set me on the rack!” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars,” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Villain, be sure thou prove my love a w*hore; / Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof;” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Are you a man?” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “To be direct and honest is not safe.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on – / Behold her topped?” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “In his sleep I heard him say ‘Sweet Desdemona,” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “I’ll tear her all to pieces!” | Othello Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “See Cassio wipe his beard with.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “To furnish me with some swift means of death / For the fair devil.” | Iago Act 3 Scene 3 |
| “I dare not say he lies anywhere.” | Clown Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “and but my noble Moor / Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are, it were enough / To put him to ill thinking.” | Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “This hand of yours requires / A sequester from liberty: fasting and prayer, / Much castigation, exercise devout; / For here’s a young and sweating devil, here, / That commonly rebels.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “A liberal hand. The hearts of old gave hands; / But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.” | Othello Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “The handkerchief!” | Othello Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Sure there’s some wonder in this handkerchief: / I am most unhappy in the loss of it.” | Desdemona 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.” | Emilia Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, / Though great ones are their object.” | Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Heaven keep that monster from Othello’s mind!” | Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Sweet Bianca, [He gives her Desdemona’s handkerchief.]” | Cassio Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “This is some token from a newer friend: To felt absence now I feel a cause,” | Bianca Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Or to be naked with her friend in bed” | Iago Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “As doth the raven o’er the infected house, / Boding to all – he had my handkerchief.” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Lie with her! Lie on her! We say ‘lie on her’, when / they belie her. Lie with her: zounds, that’s fulsome! / Handkerchief – confessions – handkerchief!” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Confess? Handkerchief? O devil! [He falls in a trance.]” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by / Breaks out to savage madness.” | Iago Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “O, thou art wise; ’tis certain.” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Marry, patience; / Or I shall say you’re all-in-all in spleen, / And nothing of a man.” | Iago Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Othello shall go mad; / And his unbookish jealousy must conster / Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures and light behaviour / Quite in the wrong.” | Iago Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “I marry her? What, a customer? I prithee, bear some charity to my wit: do not think it is so unwholesome.” | Cassio Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “This is the monkey’s own giving out: she is persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.” | Cassio Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “There; give it your hobby-horse.” | Bianca Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “I will chop her into messes – cuckold me!” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.” | Iago Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Devil! [He strikes her]” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “If that the earth could teem with women’s tears, / Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.” | Othello Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “She is honest, / Lay down my soul at stake.” | Bianca Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “Your true and loyal wife.” | Desdemona Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “O thou weed, / Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet,” | Othello Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “No, as I am a Christian.” | Desdemona Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “Lay on my bed my wedding sheets” | Desdemona Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “O heaven, that such companions thou’dst unfold / And put in every honest hand a whip,” | Bianca Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “I called my love false love; but what said he then? Sing willow, willow, willow,” | Desdemona Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell, / And have their palates both for sweet and sour,” | Bianca Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Every way makes my gain.” | Iago Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly,” | Iago Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “This is the night / That either makes me or fordoes me quite.” | Iago Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “Yet I’ll not shed her blood, / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Put out the light, and then put out the light.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Justice to break her sword!” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “[He kisses her.] So sweet was ne’er so fatal.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.” | Desdemona Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “A murder, which I thought a sacrifice.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge / Had stomach for them all.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “[He smothers her.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “I would not have thee linger in thy pain.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “My wife, my wife: what wife? I have no wife.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Then murder’s out of tune, / And sweet revenge grows harsh.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Nobody; I myself. Farewell; / Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!” | Desdemona Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “O, the more angel she, / And you the blacker devil!” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “An honest man he is,” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “May his pernicious soul / Rot half a grain a day! He lies to th’heart.” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “You told a lie, an odious, damned lie; / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak,” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “I’ll kill myself for grief.” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Villainous whor*!” | Iago Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “I will play the swan, / And die in music. [She sings:] ‘Willow, willow, willow.'” | Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Whip me, ye devils, / From the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur, / Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “I took by th’throat the circumcised dog, / And smote him – thus [He stabs himself.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “O bloody period!” | Lodovico Act 5 Scene 2 |
| “Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” | Othello Act 5 Scene 2 |
Othello Quotes… goats
September 7, 2019