Act 1 Scene 1
• 'I know my price: I am worth no worse a place' p.35
• ‘a great arithmetician, / Michael Cassio [...] That never set a squadron in the field’
p.35
• 'His Moorship's ancient' p.36
• 'I follow him to serve my turn upon him' p.36
• 'For daws to peck at. I am not what I am' p.36
• 'thick-lips' p.36
• ‘Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!’ p.37
• 'old black ram is tupping your white ewe' p.37
• 'you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you'll have your nephews
neigh to you' p.38
• 'your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs' p.38
• 'gross clasps of a lascivious Moor' p.38
• ‘Though I do hate [Othello] as I do hell-pains, / Yet, for necessity of present life, / I
must show out a flag and sign of love’ p.39
• 'O treason of the blood!' (Brabantio's fears of miscegenation) p.39
Act 1 Scene 2
• 'I love the gentle Desdemona' p.41
• ‘foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? [...] thou hast enchanted her’
(Brabantio addressing Othello) p.42
• ‘thou has practised on her with foul charms, / Abused her delicate youth with drugs
and minerals’ (Brabantio addressing Othello) p.42
• Othello referred to as ‘noble’ p.43 (first of 11 times)
• 'Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it / Without a prompter' p.43
Act 1 Scene 3
• 'Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors' p.46
• 'Rude I am in my speech' p.46
• '[Desdemona] loved me for the dangers I had passed / And I loved her that she did
pity them' p.48
• 'I do perceive here a divided duty [...] I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my
husband' p.49
• ‘Honest Iago’ p.52 (Spoken by Othello; first instance of 51 during the play, 26 to
describe Iago)
• ‘’Virtue’? A fig!’ (Iago to Roderigo) p.52
• ‘Our bodies are gardens, to the which our will are gardeners; so that if we will plant
nettles or sow lettuce [...] the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills’
(Iago to Roderigo) pp.52, 53
, • 'tenderly led by the nose / As asses are' (Iago about Othello) p.54
• ‘Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light’ p.54
Act 2 Scene 1
• 'O: O my fair warrior! / D: My dear Othello!' p.60
• 'If after every tempest come such calms / May the winds blow till they have wakened
death' (Othello) p.60
• 'If it were now to die / 'Twere to be most happy' (Othello) p.60
• 'A slipper and subtle knave, a finder-out of occasions' 'A devilish knave!' (Iago
describing himself) p.62
Act 2 Scene 3
• 'If I can fasten one cup upon [Cassio], [...] He'll be as full of quarrel and offence / As
my young mistress' dog' p.65
• 'Reputation, reputation, reputation!’ p.71
• 'I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial' p.71
• 'Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost
without deserving' p.71
• ‘virtuous Desdemona’ (Cassio) (¼ times she is referred to as ‘virtuous’) p.73
• 'I will turn [Desdemona's] virtue into pitch, / And out of her goodness I will make the
net / That shall enmesh them all' p.74
• ‘Though other things grow fair against the sun, / Yet fruits that blossom first with be
ripe’ (Iago to Roderigo) p.74
Act 3 Scene 1
• '[Desdemona] speaks for you stoutly’ (Emilia to Cassio) p.76
Act 3 Scene 3
• 'If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it / to the last article' (Desdemona) p.78
• 'O: Is he not honest? / I: 'Honest, my lord?' / O: 'Honest'? Ay, honest. [...] O: what
dost thou think? / I: 'think', my lord? / O: 'Think, my lord?'’ p.80
• 'Iago: My lord, you know I love you. / Othello: I think thou dost.' p.80
• 'Men should be what they seem' (Iago; mirrors 'I am not what I am') p.81
• 'Beware, my lord, of jealousy: / it is the green-eyed monster' (Iago addressing
Othello) p.82
• ‘I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove’ (Othello’s rationality) p.83
• 'I am bound to thee forever' (Othello addressing Iago) p.83
• ‘Haply, for I am black [...] I am declined into the vale of years’ (Othello’s insecurity)
p.85
• 'I know my price: I am worth no worse a place' p.35
• ‘a great arithmetician, / Michael Cassio [...] That never set a squadron in the field’
p.35
• 'His Moorship's ancient' p.36
• 'I follow him to serve my turn upon him' p.36
• 'For daws to peck at. I am not what I am' p.36
• 'thick-lips' p.36
• ‘Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!’ p.37
• 'old black ram is tupping your white ewe' p.37
• 'you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you'll have your nephews
neigh to you' p.38
• 'your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs' p.38
• 'gross clasps of a lascivious Moor' p.38
• ‘Though I do hate [Othello] as I do hell-pains, / Yet, for necessity of present life, / I
must show out a flag and sign of love’ p.39
• 'O treason of the blood!' (Brabantio's fears of miscegenation) p.39
Act 1 Scene 2
• 'I love the gentle Desdemona' p.41
• ‘foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? [...] thou hast enchanted her’
(Brabantio addressing Othello) p.42
• ‘thou has practised on her with foul charms, / Abused her delicate youth with drugs
and minerals’ (Brabantio addressing Othello) p.42
• Othello referred to as ‘noble’ p.43 (first of 11 times)
• 'Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it / Without a prompter' p.43
Act 1 Scene 3
• 'Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors' p.46
• 'Rude I am in my speech' p.46
• '[Desdemona] loved me for the dangers I had passed / And I loved her that she did
pity them' p.48
• 'I do perceive here a divided duty [...] I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my
husband' p.49
• ‘Honest Iago’ p.52 (Spoken by Othello; first instance of 51 during the play, 26 to
describe Iago)
• ‘’Virtue’? A fig!’ (Iago to Roderigo) p.52
• ‘Our bodies are gardens, to the which our will are gardeners; so that if we will plant
nettles or sow lettuce [...] the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills’
(Iago to Roderigo) pp.52, 53
, • 'tenderly led by the nose / As asses are' (Iago about Othello) p.54
• ‘Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light’ p.54
Act 2 Scene 1
• 'O: O my fair warrior! / D: My dear Othello!' p.60
• 'If after every tempest come such calms / May the winds blow till they have wakened
death' (Othello) p.60
• 'If it were now to die / 'Twere to be most happy' (Othello) p.60
• 'A slipper and subtle knave, a finder-out of occasions' 'A devilish knave!' (Iago
describing himself) p.62
Act 2 Scene 3
• 'If I can fasten one cup upon [Cassio], [...] He'll be as full of quarrel and offence / As
my young mistress' dog' p.65
• 'Reputation, reputation, reputation!’ p.71
• 'I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial' p.71
• 'Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost
without deserving' p.71
• ‘virtuous Desdemona’ (Cassio) (¼ times she is referred to as ‘virtuous’) p.73
• 'I will turn [Desdemona's] virtue into pitch, / And out of her goodness I will make the
net / That shall enmesh them all' p.74
• ‘Though other things grow fair against the sun, / Yet fruits that blossom first with be
ripe’ (Iago to Roderigo) p.74
Act 3 Scene 1
• '[Desdemona] speaks for you stoutly’ (Emilia to Cassio) p.76
Act 3 Scene 3
• 'If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it / to the last article' (Desdemona) p.78
• 'O: Is he not honest? / I: 'Honest, my lord?' / O: 'Honest'? Ay, honest. [...] O: what
dost thou think? / I: 'think', my lord? / O: 'Think, my lord?'’ p.80
• 'Iago: My lord, you know I love you. / Othello: I think thou dost.' p.80
• 'Men should be what they seem' (Iago; mirrors 'I am not what I am') p.81
• 'Beware, my lord, of jealousy: / it is the green-eyed monster' (Iago addressing
Othello) p.82
• ‘I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove’ (Othello’s rationality) p.83
• 'I am bound to thee forever' (Othello addressing Iago) p.83
• ‘Haply, for I am black [...] I am declined into the vale of years’ (Othello’s insecurity)
p.85
