Act 3 Key Quotes

• "I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest"- 3.1, Cassio
• "If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article. My lord shall never rest"- 3.1, Desdemona
• "Ha! I like not that."

  "Nothing, my lord; or if- I know not what" - 3.3, Iago

  "steal away so guilty-like"
• "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul"- 3.3, Othello

  "when I love thee not, chaos is come again"
• "Is he not honest?" "Honest, my lord?""what dost thou think?"

  "think, my lord?"- 3.3, Othello and Iago
• "It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on"- 3.3, Iago
• "'For she had eyes and chose me."- 3.3, Othello
• "I humbly do beseech you of your pardon for too much loving you"- 3.3, Iago "I am bound to thee for ever"- Othello
• "of her own clime, complexion, and degree"- 3.3, Othello
• "Haply for I am black"

  "have not those soft parts that chamberers have" "I am declined into the vale of years"- 3.3, Othello
• "I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses"- 3.3, Othello
• "If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself; I'll not believe it"- 3.3, Othello
• [He puts the handkerchief from him, and she drops it]- stage directions
• "My wayward husband hath a hundred times wood me to steal it"

  "What he will do with it, heaven knows, not I; I nothing but to please his fantasy"- 3.3, Emilia
• "A good wench! Give it me."- 3.3, Iago[snatching it]
• "Trifles as light as air are to a jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ"- 3.3, Iago
• "Burn like the mines of sulphur"- 3.3, Iago
• "Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!""Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone"- 3.3, Othello
• "As Dian's own visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face"- 3.3, Othello
• "I'll tear her all to pieces!" "O monstrous, monstrous!"- 3.3, Othello
• [he kneels]"Now art thou my lieutenant"- Othello

  "I am your own for ever"- Iago, 3.3
• "My noble moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness"- 3.4, Des
• "The handkerchief!"

  "The handkerchief"

  "The handkerchief"- 3.4, Othello
• "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us"- 3.4, Emilia