Quotations List for “Othello” by William Shakespeare
ACT ONE
● “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.
Arise, arise!”- Iago
● “My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly.”-
Othello
● “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: / She has deceived her
father and may thee.” - Brabantio, to Othello
● “I do perceive here a divided duty”- Desdemona
● “And to his honours and his valiant parts / Did I my soul and fortunes
consecrate.”- Desdemona
● “I am not what I am”- Iago
● “I must show out a flag and sign of love, / Which is indeed but a sign.”-
Iago
● “By Janus”- Iago
● “Put money in thy purse.”- Iago, to Roderigo
● “I hate the Moor, / And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets / He
has done my office.”- Iago
● “I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous
birth to the world’s light.”- Iago
ACT TWO
● “My fair warrior!”- Othello, to Desdemona
● “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
● “With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.”- Iago
● “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!”-
Cassio
● “And what’s he then that says I play the villain, / When this advice is free
I give and honest?”- Iago
, ACT THREE
● “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul / But I do love thee! And
when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.”- Othello, to Desdemona
● “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”- Iago, to Othello
● “[He puts the handkerchief fro him, and she drops it”
● “Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of
holy writ.”- Iago
● “O. blood, blood, blood!”- Othello
● “I am abused, and my relief / Must be to loathe her. O curse of
marriage, / That we can call these delicate creatures ours / And not their
appetites!”- Othello
● “She let it drop by negligence”- Emilia
● “This was her first remembrance from the Moor. / My wayward husband
hath a hundred times / Wooed me to steal it.”- Emilia
● “I nothing but to please his fantasy”- Emilia
● “It is a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.”- Emilia
● “She did deceive her father marrying you”- Iago
ACT FOUR
● “Work on, / My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught… My
lord, I say! Othello!”- Iago
● “Lie with her? Lie on her? We say lie on her when they belie her. Lie
with her! Zounds, that’s fulsome! Handkerchief - confessions -
handkerchief!... Is’t possible? Confess - handkerchief! O devil!”- Othello
● “Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate / Call all in all sufficient?”-
Lodovico, about Othello
● “Put out the light, and then put out the light.”- Othello
● “I understand a fury in your words, / But not the words.”- Desdemona
● “Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”- Othello, to Desdemona
ACT ONE
● “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.
Arise, arise!”- Iago
● “My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly.”-
Othello
● “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: / She has deceived her
father and may thee.” - Brabantio, to Othello
● “I do perceive here a divided duty”- Desdemona
● “And to his honours and his valiant parts / Did I my soul and fortunes
consecrate.”- Desdemona
● “I am not what I am”- Iago
● “I must show out a flag and sign of love, / Which is indeed but a sign.”-
Iago
● “By Janus”- Iago
● “Put money in thy purse.”- Iago, to Roderigo
● “I hate the Moor, / And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets / He
has done my office.”- Iago
● “I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous
birth to the world’s light.”- Iago
ACT TWO
● “My fair warrior!”- Othello, to Desdemona
● “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
● “With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.”- Iago
● “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!”-
Cassio
● “And what’s he then that says I play the villain, / When this advice is free
I give and honest?”- Iago
, ACT THREE
● “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul / But I do love thee! And
when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.”- Othello, to Desdemona
● “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”- Iago, to Othello
● “[He puts the handkerchief fro him, and she drops it”
● “Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of
holy writ.”- Iago
● “O. blood, blood, blood!”- Othello
● “I am abused, and my relief / Must be to loathe her. O curse of
marriage, / That we can call these delicate creatures ours / And not their
appetites!”- Othello
● “She let it drop by negligence”- Emilia
● “This was her first remembrance from the Moor. / My wayward husband
hath a hundred times / Wooed me to steal it.”- Emilia
● “I nothing but to please his fantasy”- Emilia
● “It is a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.”- Emilia
● “She did deceive her father marrying you”- Iago
ACT FOUR
● “Work on, / My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught… My
lord, I say! Othello!”- Iago
● “Lie with her? Lie on her? We say lie on her when they belie her. Lie
with her! Zounds, that’s fulsome! Handkerchief - confessions -
handkerchief!... Is’t possible? Confess - handkerchief! O devil!”- Othello
● “Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate / Call all in all sufficient?”-
Lodovico, about Othello
● “Put out the light, and then put out the light.”- Othello
● “I understand a fury in your words, / But not the words.”- Desdemona
● “Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”- Othello, to Desdemona
