Act 2 Key Quotes

• "The wind shakes surge- with high and monstrous mane"- 2.1, gentlemen
• "you are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens"- 2.1, Iago
• "With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio"- 2.1, Iago
• "O, my fair warrior!""My dear Othello!"- 2.1, Othello and Des
• "O, my souls joy/If after every tempest come such calms"- 2.1, Othello
• "the Moor, howbeit that I endure him not, is of a constant, loving, noble nature" - 2.1, Iago soliloquy
• "a most dear husband"- Iago
• "For that I do suspect the lusty Moor/Hath leaped into my seat"- 2.1, Iago soliloquy
• ""Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards"- 2.1, Iago soliloquy
• "A jealousy so strong [...] That judgement cannot cure"- Iago, 2.1 soliloquy
• "Our noble general"- 2.2, Herald
• "Iago is most honest"- 2.3, Othello
• "She is sport for Jove"/ "parley to provocation" "She's a most exquisite lady"/ "fresh and delicate creature"- 2.3, Cassio & Iago
• "If I can fasten but one cup upon him"- 2.3, Iago
• "If consequences do but approve my dream,/My boat sails freely, with both wind and steam"- 2.3, Iago
• "I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth/Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio"- 2.3, Iago
• "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!"- 2.3, Cassio
• "The divine Desdemona"

  "our great captain's captain"

  "Our general's wife is now the general"- 2.3, Cassio
• "And what's he then that says I play the villain"- 2.3, Iago soliloquy (2)
• "Divinity of hell!"- 2.3, Iago soliloquy (2)
• "I'll pour this pestilence into his ear"- 2.3, Iago soliloquy (2)
• "I will turn her virtue into pitch" - 2.3, Iago
• "make the net that shall enmesh them all"- 2.3, Iago