Act 5 Key Quotes

• [Iago wounds Cassio in the leg and exits]- 5.1, stagecraft
• [Enter Iago, with a light]
• "O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!"- 5.1, Roderigo
• [enter Othello, with a light, and Desdemona in bed]- 5.2
• "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul"- 5.2, Othello soliloquy
• "Yet I'll not shed her blood/Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow"- 5.2, Othello soliloquy
• "Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men"- 5.2, Othello soliloquy
• "So sweet was ne'er so fatal"- 5.2, Othello soliloquy
• "If you bethink yourself of any crime [...] solicit for it straight"- 5.2, Othello"I would not kill thy unprepared spirit"
• "That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee, thou gav'st to Cassio"- 5.2, Othello
• "My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife"- 5.2, Othello
• "A guiltless death I die"(who has done this deed-Emilia)"Nobody; I myself. Farewell"- 5.2, Desdemona
• "O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!"- 5.2, Emilia
• "she was false as water, thou art rash as fire"- 5.2, Emilia
• "My husband?""My husband?""My husband?" 5.2, Emilia
• "Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man""You told a lie, an odious damned lie"- 5.2, Emilia
• "Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man"5.2, Emilia
• "You told a lie, an odious damned lie"- 5.2, Emilia
• "I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak"- 5.2, Emilia
•  "Let heaven, and men, and devils [...] all cry shame against me, yet i'll speak"- 5.2, emilia
•  "Tis proper I obey him, but not now"- 5.2, Emilia
• "What, are you mad?"- 5.2, Iago
• "Are there no stones in heaven but what serves for the thunder? Precious villain!"- 5.2, Othello
• [Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit]
• "lay me by my mistress' side"- 5.2, Emilia
• "But why should honour outlive honesty?"- 5.2, Othello
• "Whip me, ye devils""Blow me about in winds! Roast me in sulphur!"- 5.2, Othello
• "demand me nothing; what you know, you know""I never will speak word"- 5.2, Iago
• "I have done the state some service and they know't"- 5.2, Othello final soliloquy
• "speak of me as I am"- 5.2, Othello final soliloquy
• "of one that loved not wisely, but too well"- 5.2, Othello"of one not easily jealous"
• "Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe"- 5.2, Othello
• "I took by th'throat the circumcised dog and smote him thus"- 5.2, Othello[he stabs himself]
• "For he was great of heart" (Othello)- 5.2, Cassio
• "More fell than, anguish, hunger, or the sea, look on the tragic loading of this bed"- 5.2, Ludovico
• 'when I have plucked thy rose, i cannot give it vital growth again'- (othello about losing desdemona)