| Desdemona, Control, Scene 3 | ‘By thou assured, Good Cassio, I will do/ All my abilities in thy behalf.’ |
| Emilia, Old order vs new order, Scene 3 | ‘What he will do with it, heaven know not I:/ I nothing but please his fantasy.’ |
| Iago, Reputation, Scene 3 | ‘Good name in man and woman, dear my lord/ Is the immediate Jewel of their souls.’ |
| Iago, Jealousy, Scene 3 | ‘O beware, my Lord, of jealousy:/ It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on.’ |
| Othello, Duplicity of Iago, Scene 3 | ‘By heaven, he echoes me,/ As if there were some monster in his thought/ Too hideous to be shown.’ |
| Othello, Jealousy, Scene 3 | ‘Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw/ The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt,/ For she had eyes and chose me.’ |
| Othello, Racism, Scene 3 | ‘Haply for I am black/ And have not those soft parts of conversation/ That chamberers have,’ |
| Iago, Control/ Jealousy, Scene 3 | ‘Dangerous conceits are in their nature poisons.’ |
| Othello, Changes in Othello’s conduct/ Jealousy, Scene 3 | ‘I had been happy if the general camp,/ Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body/ So I had nothing known. O now for ever/ Farewell tranquil mind! Farewell content!’ |
| Iago, Duplicity, Scene 3 | ‘She did deceive her father, marrying you,’ |
| Othello, Duplicity, Scene 3 | ‘Men should be what they seem/ Or those that be not, would they might seem none!’ |
| Othello, Jealousy, Scene 3 | ‘No Iago, / I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;/ And on the proof, there is no more than this:/ Away at once with love or jealousy. |
| Iago, Reputation, Scene 3 | ‘But he that filches from me my good name/ Robs me of that which not enriches him/ And makes me poor indeed.’ |
| Othello, Racism/ Changes in Othello’s conduct, Scene 3 | ‘Her name, that was as fresh/ As Diane’s visage, is now begrimed and black/ As mine own face!’ |
| Desdemona, Jealousy, Scene 4 | ‘I think the sun where he was born/ Drew all such humours from him.’ |
| Emilia, Sexism/ Control, Scene 4 | ‘Tis not a year or two shows us a man,/ They are all but stomachs, and we all but food./ They eat us hungrily, and when they are full/ They belch us.’ |
Othello, by William Shakespeare Act 3 Quotes
September 2, 2019