| ” I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at; I am not what I am” (1.1.71) | Said by: –IagoSaid to: -Roderigo |
| “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1.197-98) | Said by:–Iago Said to: –Brabantio |
| “She loved me for the dangers I had passed and i loved her that she did not pity them” (1.3.193-194) | Said by:–Othello Said to:–The duke/ other people in the room |
| “Look to her, moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee” (1.3334) | Said by:–BrabantioSaid to:–Othello |
| “If no virtue no delighted beauty lack, your son in law is far more fair than black” (1.2.330) | Said by:–DukeSaid to:–Brabantio |
| “You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlours, wildcats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds” (2.1 281-284) | Said by:– EmiliaSaid to:–Iago |
| “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation” (2.3.281-284) | Said by:–CassioSaid to:–Iago |
| “Our general’s wife is now the general…Confess yourself freely to her. Importune her help to put you in your place again” (2.3.334) | Said by:–IagoSaid to:–Roderigo |
| ” O beware, my lord of jealousy!/ It is the green-eyed monster with doth mock/ The meat it feeds on” (3.3195-197) | Said by:–IagoSaid to:–Othello |
| ” Why, why is this? Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy/ To follow still the changes of the moon / with fresh suspicions? No. For she had eyes and chose me. No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt” (3.3.220) | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:–Iago |
| “Look to your wife. Look to it. I know your country disposition well. In Venice, they do let (God) see the pranks they dare not to show their husbands. Their best conscience is not to leave it undone, but keep it unknown” (3.3.230-235) | Said by:–Iago Said to:–Othello |
| “Though I may fear her will, recoiling to her better judgment, may fall to match you with her country forms and happily repent” (3.3.275) | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:– Soliliquiy |
| “What he will do with it, heaven knows not I. I nothing but to please his fantasy” (3.3.342) | Said by:– OthelloSaid to:–Iago |
| ” I had been happy if the general camp, pioneer and all, had tasted her sweet body, so I had nothing known. O, now, forever farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!” (3.3.400) | Said by:– Emilia Said to:–Desdemona |
| “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us” (3.4.121-124). | Said by:–Emilia Said to:–Desdemona (in othellos presence) |
| “Nay, we must think men are not gods, nor of them look for such observancy as fits the bridal” (3.4.169-171). | Said by:–DesdemonaSaid to:–Emilia |
| “Work on, my medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach” (4.1.55). | Said by:–IagoSaid to:-Othello |
| “There’s many a beast, then, in a populous city, and many a civil monster” (4.1.175). | Said by:–CassioSaid to:–Bianca |
| “My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, though I should swear I saw ‘t (4.1. 270). | Said by:–LodovicoSaid to:–Othello |
| “Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, and turn again. And she can weep, sir, weep. And she’s obedient, as you say, obedient. Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears…O, well-painted passion!” (4.1.285). | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:–Lodovico and audience in general |
| “She says enough. Yet she is a simple bawd that cannot say as much. This is a subtle *****” (4.2.23). | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:–soliliquiy |
| “A halter pardon him, and hell gnaw his bones! Why should he call her a “*****”? Who keeps her company? What place? What time? What form? What likelihood? The Moor’s abused by some villainous knave, some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow” (4.2.165). | Said by:–Emilia Said to:–Iago and Desdemona |
| “But for the whole world! Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for ‘t” (4.3.85). | Said by:–Emilia Said to:–Dsdemona |
| “Yet I’ll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster” (5.2.3-6). | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:– Audience/in Desdemonas presence |
| “Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell” (5.2.152). | Said by:–DesdemonaSaid to:Othello and Emilia |
| “O the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!” (5.2.161). | Said by:–EmiliaSaid to:–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). | Said by: EmiliaSaid to:–Iago |
| “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 away richer than all his tribe” (5.2. 405). | Said by:–OthelloSaid to:–Lodivico/ Cassio |
Othello study guide
July 2, 2019