| “I am not what I am” (1.1.71) | S: Iago (Othello’s ensign low ranking officer)L: Roderigo (young, rich, jealous suitor) |
| “An old black ram/ is tuppling your white ewe” (1.1.97-98) | S: IagoL: Brabantio (Desdemona’s dad/Venetian senator) |
| “You’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you’ll have your nephews neigh to you” (1.1.125-126) | S: Iago L: Brabantio |
| “O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood! Fathers, from hence trust not our daughters’ mindsBy what you see them act” (1.1.191-193) | S: BrabantioL: Roderigo |
| “Let him do his spite.My services which I have done the signioryShall out-tongue his complaints” (1.2.20-22) | S: Othello (Christian moor/Venetian general)L: Iago |
| “Her father loved me, oft invited meStill questioned me the story of my life” (1.3.149-150) | S: OthelloL: Duke (highest authority of Venice/likes Othello) |
| “She loved me for the dangers I had passed,And I loved her that she did pity them” (1.3.193-194) | S: OthelloL: Duke |
| “You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlors, wildcats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your huswifery, and huswives in your bed” (2.1.121-125) | S: IagoL: Desdemona/Emilia |
| “Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this?Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do thatWhich heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?” (2.3.181-183) | S: OthelloL: Cassio/Montano (Othello’s predecessor/easily manipulated) |
| “Thy solicitor shall rather dieThan give thy cause away” (3.3.29-30) | S: Desdemona (daughter of Venetian senator)L: Cassio |
| “O beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on” (3.3.195-197) | S: IagoL: Othello |
| “For she had eyes, and chose me” (3.3.220) | S: OthelloL: Iago |
| “I had been happy if the general camp,Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,So I had nothing known” (3.3.337-339) | S: OthelloL: Iago |
| “Who he? I think the sun where he was bornDrew all such humors for him” (3.4.31-32) | S: DesdemonaL: Emilia (Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s attendant) |
| “They are all but stomach, and we all but food;They eat us hungerly, and when they are fullThey belch us” (3.4.121-124) | S: EmiliaL: Desdemona |
| “Nay, we must think men are not gods,Nor of them look for such observancyAs fits the bridal” (3.4.169-171) | S: DesdemonaL: Emilia |
| “There’s many a beast, then, in a populous city, And many a civil monster” (4.1.175) | S: IagoL: Othello |
| “Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them.They see, and Smell,And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have” (4.3.66-69) | S: EmiliaL: Desdemona |
| “Yet I’ll not shed her, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,And smooth as monumental alabaster” (5.2.3-6) | S: OthelloL: Desdemona (asleep) |
| “Nobody. I myself. Farewell” (5.2.152) | S: DesdemonaL: Emilia |
| “O the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!” (5.2.161) | S: EmiliaL: Othello |
| “‘Twill out, ’twill out. I peace?No, I will speak as liberal as the north.Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak” (5.2.260-264) | S: EmiliaL: Iago |
| “O thou, Othello, that once so good, Fall’n in the practice of a <damned. Slave,What shall be said to thee?" (5.2.322-324) | S: Lodovico (kinsman of Brabantio/Desdemona’s uncle)L: Othello |
| “Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base judean, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drops tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down, this,And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and turbanned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog,And smote him, thus” (5.2.403-417) | S: OthelloL: Lodovico |
| “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss” (5.2.420-421) | S: OthelloL: DesdemonaIt has literal and poetic meaning. Othello kissed D before killing her and now he kisses her before killing himself.His love (kiss) brought death to Desdemona so to, in a sense, make it right, her love will bring him death (he kisses her again before killing himself). |
Othello quotes Quiz
September 6, 2019