Othello Quotes Flashcards
Iago deceiving Othello in Act 1 Scene 1
Were I the moor, I would not be Iago / In following him I follow but myself
I am not what I am
Iago to Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 1
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!
Racial prejudice by Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 1
Thicklips
Brabantio in response to the claims by Iago and Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 1
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
Othello in Act 1 Scene 2
But that I love the gentle Desdemona
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them
Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 2
Damned as thou art
Thou hast enchanted her
Run from her guardage to the sloth bosom / of such a thing as thou?
Duke in Act 1 Scene 3
Valiant Othello
Gentle signior
Your son-in-Law is far more fair than black
Brabantio in Act 1 Scene 3
She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Othello in Act 1 Scene 3
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
Iago to Roderigo in Act 1 Scene 3
Put money in thy purse
Cassio about Des in Act 2 Scene 1
The divine Desdemona
Our great captain’s captain
The riches of the ship
Iago to the / about women in Act 2 Scene 1
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
Othello to Des in Act 2 Scene 1
O my fair warrior!
If it were now to die/ ‘Twere now to be most happy
Iago about Des in Act 2 Scene 3
Our general’s wife is now the general
I will turn her virtue into pitch
Othello’s description of Iago in Act 2 Scene 3
Honest Iago
Cassio after his mishap in Act 2 Scene 3
Reputation, reputation, reputation!
I have lost the immoral part of myself-and what remains is bestial.
Honest Iago
Montano to Othello in Act 2 Scene 3
Noble moor
Worthy Othello
Cassio in Act 3 Scene 1 to Des
Virtuous Desdemona
Give me advantage of some brief discourse / with Desdemon alone
Iago in Act 3 Scene 3 to Othello, then Emilia, then Othello
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.
Desdemona to the duke in Act 1 Scene 3
I do perceive here a divided duty
Othello to Iago in Act 3 Scene 3
I am bound to thee forever
Give me a living reason she’s disloyal
I’ll tear her to pieces!
Emilia to Des in Act 3 Scene 4
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / they belch us
Desdemona to Emilia in Act 3 Scene 4
My lord is not my lord
Iago to Othello in Act 4 Scene 1
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
Othello’s confusion in Act 4 Scene 1
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!
Othello about Des in Act 4 Scene 1
Public commoner
Impudent strumpet
Desdemona to Emilia about infidelity in Act 4 Scene 3
There be women do abuse their husbands / in such gross kinds?
Emilia to Des about infidelity in Act 4 scene 3
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
Iago soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 1
This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite
Othello to Iago in Act 5 Scene 1
O brave Iago
Othello before the murder in Act 5 Scene 2
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.
Desdemona before death in Act 5 Scene 2
A guiltless death I die
Iago’s last words in Act 5 Scene 2
Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word.
