Othello Quotes

Question 1

Iago deceiving Othello in Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 1

Were I the moor, I would not be Iago / In following him I follow but myself

I am not what I am

Question 2

Iago to Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 2

Thieves, thieves, thieves! / look to your house, your daughter and your bags!

Zounds

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe!

Your daughter and the moor are now making the Beast with two backs!

Question 3

Racial prejudice by Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 3

Thicklips

Question 4

Brabantio in response to the claims by Iago and Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 4

Thou art a villain

This accident is not unlike my dream

O, she deceives me

Father’s, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds / by what you see them act

Question 5

Othello in Act 1 Scene 2

Answer 5

But that I love the gentle Desdemona

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them

Question 6

Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 2

Answer 6

Damned as thou art

Thou hast enchanted her

Run from her guardage to the sloth bosom / of such a thing as thou?

Question 7

Duke in Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 7

Valiant Othello

Gentle signior

Your son-in-Law is far more fair than black

Question 8

Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 8

She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Question 9

Othello in Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 9

Most potent, grave and reverend seigniors

My very noble and approved good masters

Rude am I in my speech / and little blest with the soft phrase of peace

Question 10

Iago to Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 10

Put money in thy purse

Question 11

Cassio about Des in Act 2 Scene 1

Answer 11

The divine Desdemona

Our great captain’s captain

The riches of the ship

Question 12

Iago to the / about women in Act 2 Scene 1

Answer 12

You are picture out of doors… wild cats in your kitchens / players in your housewifery, and housewives in…your beds!

Yo rise to play, and go to bed to work

Question 13

Othello to Des in Act 2 Scene 1

Answer 13

O my fair warrior!

If it were now to die/ ‘Twere now to be most happy

Question 14

Iago about Des in Act 2 Scene 3

Answer 14

Our general’s wife is now the general

I will turn her virtue into pitch

Question 15

Othello’s description of Iago in Act 2 Scene 3

Answer 15

Honest Iago

Question 16

Cassio after his mishap in Act 2 Scene 3

Answer 16

Reputation, reputation, reputation!

I have lost the immoral part of myself-and what remains is bestial.

Honest Iago

Question 17

Montano to Othello in Act 2 Scene 3

Answer 17

Noble moor

Worthy Othello

Question 18

Cassio in Act 3 Scene 1 to Des

Answer 18

Virtuous Desdemona

Give me advantage of some brief discourse / with Desdemon alone

Question 19

Iago in Act 3 Scene 3 to Othello, then Emilia, then Othello

Answer 19

Ha, I like not that

Men should be what they seem/ or those that be not, would they might seem none.

O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster

Look to your wife, observe her well with cassio

A good wench, give it to me

Nay, yet be wise, she may be honest yet.

But let her live.

Question 20

Desdemona to the duke in Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 20

I do perceive here a divided duty

Question 21

Othello to Iago in Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 21

I am bound to thee forever

Give me a living reason she’s disloyal

I’ll tear her to pieces!

Question 22

Emilia to Des in Act 3 Scene 4

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Desdemona to Emilia in Act 3 Scene 4

Answer 23

My lord is not my lord

Question 24

Iago to Othello in Act 4 Scene 1

Answer 24

Good sir, be a man

Mark his gesture

Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?

Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed

Question 25

Othello’s confusion in Act 4 Scene 1

Answer 25

Lie with her? Lie on her?

Handkerchief! Confessions! Handkerchief!

A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!

For she shall not live

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!

Question 26

Othello about Des in Act 4 Scene 1

Answer 26

Public commoner

Impudent strumpet

Question 27

Desdemona to Emilia about infidelity in Act 4 Scene 3

Answer 27

There be women do abuse their husbands / in such gross kinds?

Question 28

Emilia to Des about infidelity in Act 4 scene 3

Answer 28

I might do it as well in the dark

It is a great price / for a small vice

But I do think it is their husbands’ faults, / if wives do fall

Question 29

Iago soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 1

Answer 29

This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite

Question 30

Othello to Iago in Act 5 Scene 1

Answer 30

O brave Iago

Question 31

Othello before the murder in Act 5 Scene 2

Answer 31

It is the cause, it is the cause my soul.

Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men

Put out the light, and then put out the light

One more, and thats the last.

Question 32

Desdemona before death in Act 5 Scene 2

Answer 32

A guiltless death I die

Question 33

Iago’s last words in Act 5 Scene 2

Answer 33

Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word.