Quotes from Othello
25 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1603
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
Iago, Act III, scene iii I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
Iago, Act I, scene i Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme.
Othello, Act V, scene ii I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
Othello, Act V, scene ii I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
Othello, Othello Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
Iago to Brabantio, Act I, scene i Put money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse.
Iago to Roderigo, Act I, scene iii Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself.
Cassio, Othello Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Cassio, Act II, scene iii Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Othello, Act V, scene ii Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Iago, Act III, scene iii Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't.
Othello, Act V, scene ii Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Iago, Act III, scene iii Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
Othello of Desdemona, Act III, scene iii O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Othello, Act III, scene iii She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Othello, Act I, scene iii Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
Emilia, Act IV, scene iii Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace.
Othello to the Senate, Act I, scene iii Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Othello, Act I, scene ii O, the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
Othello, Act IV, scene i But I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall.
Emilia, Act IV, scene iii 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
Emilia, Act III, scene iv Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have.
Othello, Act III, scene iii Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word.
Iago, Act V, scene ii