Othello quotes

• Race

  
  

  “O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!” - Brabantio, A1S1
• Race

  
  

  “An old black ram is tupping your white ewe” - Iago, A1S1
• Race

  
  

  “Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs” - Iago, A1S1
• Gender

  
  

  “Their ills instruct us so” - Emelia, A4S3
• Gender

  
  

  “nobody; I myself” - Desdemona, A5S2
• Masculinity

  
  

  “Where should Othello go?” - Othello, A5S2
• Masculinity

  
  

  “Twas I that killed her” -Othello, A5S2
• Masculinity

  
  

  “Men should be what they seem” - Iago, A3S3
• Gender

  
  

  “Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men” - Othello, A5S2
• Gender

  
  

  “She like a liar gone to burning hell” - Othello, A5S2
• Deception

  "I follow him to serve my turn upon him" - Iago, A1S1
• Race

  "You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" - Iago, A1S1
• Deception

  "Iago is most honest" - Othello, A2S3
• Deception

  "I do love Cassio well, and would do much to cure him of this evil" - Iago, A2S3
• Status

  "Cassio, I love thee, but never more be officer of mine" - Othello, A2S3
• Status

  "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!" - Cassio, A2S3
• Gender

  "Our general's wife is now the general" - Cassio, A2S3
• Deception

  "O beware, my lord, of jealousy" - Iago, A3S3
• Deception

  "A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!" - Othello

  "Nay, you must forget that." - Iago

  "Ay, let her rot and perish" - Othello, A4S1
• Gender

  "[He strikes her]" - A4S1
• Gender

  "I do think it is husbands' faults if wives do fall" - Emilia, A4S1
• Gender

  "Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us" - Emilia, A4S3
• Deception

  "I have no great devotion to the deed, and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons" - Roderigo, A5S1
• Deception

  "Now, whether he kill Cassio, or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, every way makes my gain" - Iago, A5S1
• Deception

  "O brave Iago, honest and just" - Othello, A5S1
• Deception

  "O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!" - Roderigo, A5S1
• Gender

  "I am no strumpet" - Bianca, A5S1
• Deception

  "[Aside] This is the night that either makes me, or fordoes me quite" - Iago, A5S1
• Gender

  "A guiltless death I die" - Desdemona, A5S2
• Gender

  "O, the more angel she, and you [Othello] the blacker devil!" - Emilia, S5A2
• Deception

  "O, thou Othello, that wert once so good, fallen in the practice of a damned slave" - Lodovico, A5S2
• Power

  "To you lord governor [Cassio], remains the censure of this hellish villain" - Lodovico, A5S2
• Status

  "My part, my life, my perfect soul" - Othello, A1S2
• Deception

  "Poison his delight ... Plague him with flies" - Iago, A1S1
• Gender

  "She is abused, sol'n from me, and corrupted" - Brabantio, A1S3
• Gender

  "I won his daughter" - Othello, A1S3
• Deception

  "To abuse Othello's ear" - Iago, A1S3
• Deception

  "I put the Moor into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure" - Iago, A2S1