| “I am not what I am.” | Iago |
| “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.” | Brabantio |
| “But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, and it is thought abrod that ‘twixt my sheet ‘has done my office. I know not if ‘t be true…” | Iago |
| “Reputation! Reputation! Reputation! O I have lost my reputation!” | Cassio |
| “Touch me not so near. I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offense to Michael Cassio. Yet I persuade myself, to speak the truth shall nothing wrong him.” | Iago |
| “O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!” | Cassio |
| “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!” | Cassio |
| “This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter, and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.” | Iago |
| “She shall undo her credit with the Moor. So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.” | Iago |
| “How poor are they that have not patience!” | Iago |
| “Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it that he would steal away so guiltylike, seeing your coming.” | Iago |
| “Why then tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn, or Tuesday noon or night; on Wednesday morn. I prithee name the time, but let it not exceed three days.” | Desdemona |
| “Whate’er you be, I am obedient.” | Iago |
| “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.” | Othello |
| “Men should be what they seem.” | Iago |
| “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. That cuckolds lives in bliss.” | Iago |
| “I have a pain upon my forehead, here.” | Othello |
| “That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give. She was a charmer, and could almost read the thoughts of people.” | Othello |
| “Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated | Iago |
| “Hath she forsook so many noble matches, her father and her country and her friends, to be called ‘*****?’ Would it not make one weep?” | Emilia |
| “The jewels you have had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votaress.” | Roderigo |
| “If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me in one of those same sheets.” | Desdmona |
| “Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for ‘t.” | Emilia |
| “Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O farewell.” | Desdemona |
| “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.” | Othello |
Othello Quotes
August 22, 2019