Othello Quotation Bank

Othello : Quotation Bank The object of this quotation bank is to provide quotations that can prove a point made in essay work about an image, a character or a theme. Use the quotations below when compiling your notes on Othello. This is not a complete list but will add to some of the quotations you already have form our analysis in class. Act 1 Scene 1

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...by the faith of man,/Iknow my price, I am worth no worse a place (Iago to Roderig o)

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...in following him, I follow but myself. ( Iago about Othello)

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...I am not what I am. (Iago)

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...an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe. ( Iago to Brabantio)

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...your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. ( Iago to Brabantio)

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...I must show out a flag and sign of love. (Iago) Act 1 scene 2

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...my services.../Shall out-tongue his complaints. ( Othello about Brabantio)

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...my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly. (Othello)

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...the sooty bosom/Of such a thing as thou...(Brabantio to Othello)

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...bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. (Brabantio) Act 1 scene 3

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A man he is of honesty and trust... (Othello about Iago)

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She has deceived her father, and may thee. (Brabantio to Othello)

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It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will (I ago about love)

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The Moor is of a free and open nature,/That thinks men honest that bit seem to be so... (Iago) Act 2 scene 1

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... the divine Desdemona...our great Captain’s Captain. (Cassio to Iago)

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Nay it is true, or else I am a Turk...(Iago)

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...it is too much joy. (Othello , on his reunion wi th Desdemona)

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...knavery’s plain face is never seen till used .(iago) Act 2 scene 3

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Now, by heaven,/My blood begins my safer guides to rule...(Othello)

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...I’ll pur this pestilence into his ear...(Iago about Othello)

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So will I turn her virtue into pitch,/And out of her own goodness make the net/That shall enmesh them all. (Iago about Desdemona)

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Act 3 scene 3

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Perdition catch my soul/But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,/Chaos is come again(Othello about Desdemona)

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I am bound to thee for ever (Othello to Iago)

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...I am abused, and my relief/Must be to loathe her. (Othello about Desdemona)

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Trifles light as air/Are to the jealous confirmation string/As proofs of holy writ. (Iago)

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Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore;/Be sure of it:give me the ocular proof...(Othello to Iago)

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I am your own for ever. (Iago to Othello)

Act 3 scene 4

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...my noble Moor/Is true of mind...(Desdemona to Emilia)

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...there’s magic in the web of it. (Othello to Desdemona about the handkerchief)

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They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. (Emilia to Desdemona about men and women)

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It is a monster/Begot upon itself, born on itself. (Emilia on jealousy) Act 4 scene 2

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Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. (Othello to Desdemona) Act 5 scene 1

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O damned Iago! O inhuman dog! (Roderigo)

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This is the night/That either makes me, or fordoes me quite. (Iago) Act 5 scene 2

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Put out the light, and then put out the light...(Othell o about Desdemona)

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Some bloody passion shakes your very frame... (Desdemona to Othello)

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She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. (Emilia about Desdemona to Othello)

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..Othello that wast once so good,/Fallen in the practice of a damned slave...(Lodovico)

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Demand me nothing; what you know, you know:/From this time forth I never will speak word. (Iago to Othello)

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...one that loved not wisely , but too well...(Othello about himself)

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...not easily jealous but, being wrought,/Perplexed in the extreme...(Othello about himself)

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