Key character quotes

Question 1

Othello 1

Answer 1

She loved me for the dangers I had passed
And I loved that she did pity them

Question 2

Othello 2

Answer 2

I know, Iago
Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter

Question 3

Othello 3

Answer 3

I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings

Question 4

Othello 4

Answer 4

No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt

Question 5

Othello 5

Answer 5

I saw ‘t not, thought it not, it harmed not me

Question 6

Othello 6

Answer 6

Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace
Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love

Question 7

Othello 7

Answer 7

Therefore be double damned: Swear thou art honest

Question 8

Othello 8

Answer 8

Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well

Question 9

Desdemona 1

Answer 9

I do perceive here a divided duty

Question 10

Desdemona 2

Answer 10

Do not doubt, Cassio,
But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were

Question 11

Desdemona 3

Answer 11

I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humors from him

Question 12

Desdemona 4

Answer 12

His unkindness may defeat my life
But never taint my love

Question 13

Desdemona 5

Answer 13

Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong
For the whole world

Question 14

Desdemona 6

Answer 14

Kill me tomorrow - let me live tonight!

Question 15

Iago 1

Answer 15

I follow him to serve my turn upon him

Question 16

Iago 2

Answer 16

If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport

Question 17

Iago 3

Answer 17

It is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets
He’s done my office

Question 18

Iago 4

Answer 18

I am not what I am

Question 19

Iago 5

Answer 19

She did deceive her father, marrying you

Question 20

Iago 6

Answer 20

Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated