Othello Key Quotes
Act 1 Scene 1
Venice A Street at Night – Stage direction
Tush! I take it much unkindly that thou Iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine shouldst
know of this - Roderigo
Sblood! - Iago
‘Certes’ he said ‘I have already chose my officer’ and what was he ? … a great arithmetician, one Michael
Cassio, a Florentine - Iago being bitter over Cassio’s promotion
A bookish theoric/ never set a squadron in the field/ mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership –
Iago describing Cassio
And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship’s ancient -Iago
Preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation - Iago
I would not follow him then - Roderigo
I follow him to serve my turn upon him -Iago
Nor all masters cannot truly be followed - Iago
In following him I follow but myself - Iago
I am not what I am - Iago
What full fortune does the thicklips owe – Roderigo talking about Othello
Call up her father. Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight... plague him with flies - Iago ordering
Roderigo to awake Brabantio
Do with like timorous accent and dire yell - Iago
Look to your house your daughter and your bags! Thieves, Thieves! -Iago
An old black ram is tupping your white ewe - Iago
Arise, arise! … Arise I say! - Iago
My name is Roderigo.... 'the worser welcome’- Brabantio
My daughter is not for thee - Brabantio
This is Venice. My house is not a grange -Brabantio
You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse... coursers for cousins and jennets for Germans
– Iago
Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs - Iago
,The gross clasps of a lascivious Moor - Roderigo
Your daughter... hath made a gross revolt tying her duty beauty wit and fortunes in an extravagant and
wheeling stranger -Roderigo
Let loose on me the justice of the state for thus deluding you - Roderigo
Call up all my people.... light, I say, light ! -Brabantio
It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place to be produced.. Against the Moor - Iago
I must show out a flag and sign of love which is indeed but a sign - Iago
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search - Iago
Enter Brabantio in his nightgown – Stage Direction
O she deceives me past thought - Brabantio
Raise all my kindred. - Brabantio
How got she out? O treason of the blood! Fathers from hence trust not your daughter’s minds -
Brabantio
Apprehend her and the Moor - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 2
Spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honour - Iago
The magnifico is much beloved and hath in his effect a voice potential as double as the Duke’s. -Iago
Let him do his spite. The services which I have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints –Othello
I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege – Othello
I love the gentle Desdemona - Othello
I must be found. My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly. -Othello
He requires your hasteposthaste appearance - Cassio
It is a business of some heat - Cassio
He tonight hath boarded a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize he’s made forever. - Iago
General be advised. He comes to bad intent. - Iago
Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them – Othello
Where hast thou stowed my daughter - Brabantio
If she in chains of magic were not bound whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation,
, would ever have... run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou—to fear, not to
delight! - Brabantio
Thou hast practised on her with foul charms - Brabantio
I therefore apprehend and attach thee for a practiser of arts inhibited - Brabantio
Lay hold upon him. - Brabantio
Were it my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter – Othello
My brothers of the state cannot but feel this wrong as ‘twere their own. - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Tis a pageant to keep us in false gaze - Senators
Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman - Duke
My daughter ! O, my daughter! Dead? Ay, to me. She is abused, stolen from me and corrupted –
Brabantio
For nature so preposterously to err.... Sans witchcraft could not. - Brabantio
The bloody book of law you shall yourself read - Duke
I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, it is most true -Othello
Rude am I in my speech and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace -Othello
Feats of broil and battle - Othello
I will a round unvarnished tale deliver of my whole course of love - Othello
I won his daughter – Othello
To fall in love with what she feared to look on! It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect... against
all rules of nature - Brabantio
To vouch this is no proof - Duke
Send for the lady to the Sagittary – Othello
Let your sentence even fall upon my life - Othello
Her father loved me oft invited me - Othello
With a greedy ear devour up my discourse – Othello
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs - Othello
Twas pitiful twas wondrous pitiful -Othello
Act 1 Scene 1
Venice A Street at Night – Stage direction
Tush! I take it much unkindly that thou Iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine shouldst
know of this - Roderigo
Sblood! - Iago
‘Certes’ he said ‘I have already chose my officer’ and what was he ? … a great arithmetician, one Michael
Cassio, a Florentine - Iago being bitter over Cassio’s promotion
A bookish theoric/ never set a squadron in the field/ mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership –
Iago describing Cassio
And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship’s ancient -Iago
Preferment goes by letter and affection and not by old gradation - Iago
I would not follow him then - Roderigo
I follow him to serve my turn upon him -Iago
Nor all masters cannot truly be followed - Iago
In following him I follow but myself - Iago
I am not what I am - Iago
What full fortune does the thicklips owe – Roderigo talking about Othello
Call up her father. Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight... plague him with flies - Iago ordering
Roderigo to awake Brabantio
Do with like timorous accent and dire yell - Iago
Look to your house your daughter and your bags! Thieves, Thieves! -Iago
An old black ram is tupping your white ewe - Iago
Arise, arise! … Arise I say! - Iago
My name is Roderigo.... 'the worser welcome’- Brabantio
My daughter is not for thee - Brabantio
This is Venice. My house is not a grange -Brabantio
You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse... coursers for cousins and jennets for Germans
– Iago
Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs - Iago
,The gross clasps of a lascivious Moor - Roderigo
Your daughter... hath made a gross revolt tying her duty beauty wit and fortunes in an extravagant and
wheeling stranger -Roderigo
Let loose on me the justice of the state for thus deluding you - Roderigo
Call up all my people.... light, I say, light ! -Brabantio
It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place to be produced.. Against the Moor - Iago
I must show out a flag and sign of love which is indeed but a sign - Iago
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search - Iago
Enter Brabantio in his nightgown – Stage Direction
O she deceives me past thought - Brabantio
Raise all my kindred. - Brabantio
How got she out? O treason of the blood! Fathers from hence trust not your daughter’s minds -
Brabantio
Apprehend her and the Moor - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 2
Spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honour - Iago
The magnifico is much beloved and hath in his effect a voice potential as double as the Duke’s. -Iago
Let him do his spite. The services which I have done the signiory shall out tongue his complaints –Othello
I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege – Othello
I love the gentle Desdemona - Othello
I must be found. My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly. -Othello
He requires your hasteposthaste appearance - Cassio
It is a business of some heat - Cassio
He tonight hath boarded a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize he’s made forever. - Iago
General be advised. He comes to bad intent. - Iago
Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them – Othello
Where hast thou stowed my daughter - Brabantio
If she in chains of magic were not bound whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy,
so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation,
, would ever have... run from her guardage to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou—to fear, not to
delight! - Brabantio
Thou hast practised on her with foul charms - Brabantio
I therefore apprehend and attach thee for a practiser of arts inhibited - Brabantio
Lay hold upon him. - Brabantio
Were it my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter – Othello
My brothers of the state cannot but feel this wrong as ‘twere their own. - Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Tis a pageant to keep us in false gaze - Senators
Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman - Duke
My daughter ! O, my daughter! Dead? Ay, to me. She is abused, stolen from me and corrupted –
Brabantio
For nature so preposterously to err.... Sans witchcraft could not. - Brabantio
The bloody book of law you shall yourself read - Duke
I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, it is most true -Othello
Rude am I in my speech and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace -Othello
Feats of broil and battle - Othello
I will a round unvarnished tale deliver of my whole course of love - Othello
I won his daughter – Othello
To fall in love with what she feared to look on! It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect... against
all rules of nature - Brabantio
To vouch this is no proof - Duke
Send for the lady to the Sagittary – Othello
Let your sentence even fall upon my life - Othello
Her father loved me oft invited me - Othello
With a greedy ear devour up my discourse – Othello
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs - Othello
Twas pitiful twas wondrous pitiful -Othello
