Othello quotations by theme and character
Othello:
“But that I love the gentle Desdemona” (1,2)
“Honest Iago” (everywhere)
“if I were now to die, ‘twere now to be most happy” (2,1)
“I will deny thee nothing” [Talking to D] (3,3)
“Farewell the tranquil mind” “Farewell content” “Farewell, farewell” [D’s unfaithfulness] (3,3)
“Othello’s occupation’s gone” (3,3)
Her name “is now begrimed and black as mine own face” (3,3)
“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell” (3,3)
“swift means of death for the fair devil” (3,4)
“as doth the raven o’er the infected house” (4,1)
“A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman” [Iago] “Nay you must forget that” “Ay let her rot and
perish and be damned tonight” (4,1)
[Strikes her] “devil!” (4,1)
“Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more women” (5,2)
“if you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven or grace” (5,2)
“shes like a liar gone to burning hell, ‘twas I that killed her” (5,2)
Desdemona:
“Upon my knees” (4,2)
[Desdemona] “If any such there be, heaven pardon him” [Emilia] “A halter pardon him” (4,1)
[Emilia] “who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?” [Desdemona]
“Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world” (4,3)
“kill me tomorrow: let me live tonight” “But half an hour” (5,2)
“A guiltless death I die” (5,2)
“Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. Farewell” (5,2)
Emilia:
“I nothing but to please his fantasy” (3,3)
, “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they
belch us” (3,4)
“they are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon
itself, born on itself” (3,4)
[Desdemona] “If any such there be, heaven pardon him” [Emilia] “A halter pardon him” (4,1)
[Emilia] “who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?” [Desdemona]
“Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world” (4,3)
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them; they see and smell, and gave their palates
both for sweet and sour as husbands have” (4,3)
“And have not we affections, desires for sport and frailty as men have?” (4,3)
“Fie, fie upon thee strumpet” (5,1)
“My husband?” rept (5,2)
“I will not charm my tongue” (5,2)
“She loved thee cruel moor” (5,2
Iago:
“almost damned in a fair wife” (1,1)
“I am not what I am” (1,1)
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1,1)
“I never found a man who knew how to love himself” (1,3)
“I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen. I would change my humanity with a baboon”
(1,3)
“I do suspect the lusty moor has lept into my seat” (2,1)
“Till I am evened with him wife for wife” (2,1)
“I’ll pour this pestilence in his ear” (2,3)
“The Moor already changes with my poison” (3,3)
“strangle her in her bed even the bed she hath contaminated” (4,1)
“Demand me nothing, What you know you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word”
(5,2)
Othello:
“But that I love the gentle Desdemona” (1,2)
“Honest Iago” (everywhere)
“if I were now to die, ‘twere now to be most happy” (2,1)
“I will deny thee nothing” [Talking to D] (3,3)
“Farewell the tranquil mind” “Farewell content” “Farewell, farewell” [D’s unfaithfulness] (3,3)
“Othello’s occupation’s gone” (3,3)
Her name “is now begrimed and black as mine own face” (3,3)
“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell” (3,3)
“swift means of death for the fair devil” (3,4)
“as doth the raven o’er the infected house” (4,1)
“A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman” [Iago] “Nay you must forget that” “Ay let her rot and
perish and be damned tonight” (4,1)
[Strikes her] “devil!” (4,1)
“Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more women” (5,2)
“if you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven or grace” (5,2)
“shes like a liar gone to burning hell, ‘twas I that killed her” (5,2)
Desdemona:
“Upon my knees” (4,2)
[Desdemona] “If any such there be, heaven pardon him” [Emilia] “A halter pardon him” (4,1)
[Emilia] “who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?” [Desdemona]
“Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world” (4,3)
“kill me tomorrow: let me live tonight” “But half an hour” (5,2)
“A guiltless death I die” (5,2)
“Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. Farewell” (5,2)
Emilia:
“I nothing but to please his fantasy” (3,3)
, “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they
belch us” (3,4)
“they are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon
itself, born on itself” (3,4)
[Desdemona] “If any such there be, heaven pardon him” [Emilia] “A halter pardon him” (4,1)
[Emilia] “who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?” [Desdemona]
“Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world” (4,3)
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them; they see and smell, and gave their palates
both for sweet and sour as husbands have” (4,3)
“And have not we affections, desires for sport and frailty as men have?” (4,3)
“Fie, fie upon thee strumpet” (5,1)
“My husband?” rept (5,2)
“I will not charm my tongue” (5,2)
“She loved thee cruel moor” (5,2
Iago:
“almost damned in a fair wife” (1,1)
“I am not what I am” (1,1)
“an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” (1,1)
“I never found a man who knew how to love himself” (1,3)
“I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen. I would change my humanity with a baboon”
(1,3)
“I do suspect the lusty moor has lept into my seat” (2,1)
“Till I am evened with him wife for wife” (2,1)
“I’ll pour this pestilence in his ear” (2,3)
“The Moor already changes with my poison” (3,3)
“strangle her in her bed even the bed she hath contaminated” (4,1)
“Demand me nothing, What you know you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word”
(5,2)
