othello quotes

Question 1

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

Answer 1

• Othello
• articulate individual who is charismatic and charming despite racial divisions
• 1.3

Question 2

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

Answer 2

• 2.3
• Othello

Question 3

No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt.

Answer 3

• Othello
• 3.3

Question 4

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

Answer 4

• 3.3
• Othello

Question 5

Therefore be double damned: Swear thou art honest

Answer 5

• Othello
• 4.2

Question 6

Of one that loved not wisely but too well.

Answer 6

• Othello
• 5.2

Question 7

I do perceive here a divided duty

Answer 7

• 1.3
• Desdemona

Question 8

But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were.

Answer 8

• 3.3
• Desdemona

Question 9

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

Answer 9

• 3.4
• desdemona

Question 10

Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight

Answer 10

• 5.2
• Desdemona

Question 11

I follow him to serve my turn upon him

Answer 11

• 1.1
• Iago

Question 12

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

Answer 12

• 1.3
• Iago

Question 13

She did deceive her father, marrying you

Answer 13

• 3.3
• Iago

Question 14

Strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated

Answer 14

• 4.1
• Iago

Question 15

’Tis my breeding
That gives me this bold show of courtesy.

Answer 15

• 2.1
• Cassio

Question 16

An inviting eye—and yet methinks right modest

Answer 16

• 2.3
• Cassio

Question 17

Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial

Answer 17

• 2.3
• Cassio

Question 18

’Tis not a year or two shows us a man

Answer 18

• 3.4
• Emilia

Question 19

They are not ever jealous for the cause
But jealous for they’re jealous.

Answer 19

• 3.4
• Emilia

Question 20

If any wretch have put this in your head
Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse

Answer 20

• Emilia
• 4.2

Question 21

O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter?

Answer 21

• brabantio

Question 22

thou hast enchanted her

Answer 22

• brabantio

Question 23

an old black ram is tupping your white ewe

Answer 23

• iago
• 1.1

Question 24

she wished that heaven had made her such man

Answer 24

• othello
• 1.3

Question 25

our bodies are garden, to which our wills are gardeners

Answer 25

• iago
• 1.3

Question 26

reputation, reputation, reputation!

Answer 26

• cassio
  2.3

Question 27

o, beware, my lord, of jealousy

Answer 27

• iago
• 2.3

Question 28

farewell the tranquil mind

Answer 28

• othello
• 3.3

Question 29

they eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us

Answer 29

• emilia
• 3.4

Question 30

yet i’ll speak

Answer 30

• emilia
• 5.2

Question 31

killing myself, to die upon a kiss

Answer 31

• othello
• 5.2

Question 32

i am worth no worse a place

Answer 32

• iago
• 1.1

Question 33

reference to Janus

Answer 33

• roman god
• beginning, ending and duality

Question 34

and when i love thee not Chaos come again

Answer 34

• empty void before the creation of the universe
• allusions