| “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe.” (Act l) | Iago |
| “She has deceived her father, and may thee.” (Act I) | Brabantio |
| “My life upon her faith.” (Act I) | Othello |
| “If virtue no delighted beauty lack/Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. (Act I) | Duke |
| “I have told thee often, and I retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor.” (Act I) | Iago |
| “I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.” (Act II) | Cassio |
| “Our general’s wife is now the general.” (Act II) | Iago |
| “Men should be what they seem,/Or those that be not, would they seem none.” (Act III) | Iago |
| “Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss/Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;/But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er/Who dotes yet doubts, suspects yet strongly loves.” (Act III) | Iago |
| “O curse of marriage!/That we can call these delicate creatures ours/And not their appetites! (Act III) | OTHELLO |
| “Villain, be sure thou prove my love a wh*re!/Be sure of it, give me the ocular proof…” (Act III) | OTHELLO |
| “‘Tis not a year or two shows us a man./They are all stomachs, and we all but food;/They eat us hungerly, and when they are full/They belch us.” (Act III) | EMILIA |
| “My mother had a maid called Barbary;/She was in love, and he she loved proved mad/And he did forsake her. She had a ‘Song of Willow’—An old thing ’twas, but it expressed her fortune—/And she died singing it.” (Act IV) | DESDEMONA |
| “‘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!” (Act V) | EMILIA |
| “Ah, loyal to your sex, I see.” | County Attorney |
| “I don’t think a place’d be any cheerfuller for John Wright’s being in it.” | Mrs. Hale |
| “I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing.” | Mrs. Hale |
| “But Mrs Hale, the law is the law.” | Mrs. Peters |
Othello + Trifles
August 18, 2019