1.1, Iago | “Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty…For daws to peck at; I am not what I am” |
1.1, Iago | “I am one, sir that comes to tell you your daughter And the moor are making the beast with two backs.” |
1.3, Barbantio | “So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile…I humbly beseech you, proceed to th’ affairs of state.” |
2.1, Iago | “Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk: You rise to play, and go to bed to work.” |
2.1, Iago | “With as little a web as this will I ensnare As great a fly as Cassio.” |
2.3, Cassio | “Good night, honest Iago.” |
3.3, Iago | “Ha! I like not that.” |
3.3, Othello | “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soulBut I do love thee! And when I love thee not,Chaos is come again.” |
3.3, Iago | “Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!” |
3.3, Iago | “I know not that; but such a handkerchief —I am sure it was your wife’s — did I todaySee Cassio wipe his beard with.” |
4.1, Othello | “Devil!” [strikes her.] |
4.2, Othello | “We have done our course; there’s money for your pains.” |
5.1, Rodrigo | “O damned Iago! O inhumane dog! Wherein non can” |
5.2, Othello | “I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this,Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” |
5.2, Lodovico | “Myself will straight aboard, and to the stateThis heavy act with heavy heart relate.” |
15 Important Othello Quotes
July 26, 2019