Othello Quotations

• Iago: Act 1 Scene 1


  "I am not what I am"
• Iago: Act 1 Scene 1


  "An old black ram is tupping your white ewe"
• Othello: Act 1 Scene 2


  "My services which I have done the signiory/ Shall out-tongue his complaints"
• Brabantio Act 1 Scene 3


  "Look at her, Moor, if tho has't eyes to see: / She has deceived her father, and may thee"
• Cassio: Act 2 Scene 1

  "Our great Captain's captain" (on Desdemona)
• Othello: Act 2 Scene 1

  "O my fair warrior... O my soul's joy"
• Othello: Act 2 Scene 1

  "If after every tempest comes such calms/ May winds blow til they have waken'd death"
• Iago: Act 2 Scene 1

  "For that I do suspect the lusty Moor/ Hath leap'd into my seat/ Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards"
• Cassio: Act 2 Scene 3

  "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial"
• Othello: Act 3 Scene 3

  "Now art thou my lieutenant" (Iago)
• Iago: Act 3 Scene 3

  "I am your own for ever" (Othello)
• Othello: Act 3 Scene 3

  "I do love thee; and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again" (Desdemona)
• Lodovico: Act 4 Scene 1

  "Whom passion could not shake" (Othello)
• Emilia: Act 3 Scene 4


  "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full. / They belch us"
• Desdemona: Act 5 Scene 2


  "Some bloody passion shakes your very frame" (Othello)
• Desdemona: Act 5 Scene 2

  "Nobody; I myself. Farewell/ Commend me to my kind lord"
• Othello: Act 1 Scene 2

  "For know, Iago, / But that I love the gentle Desdemona"
• Othello: Act 2 Scene 1

  "Wonder great as my content/ To see you here before me;" (Desdemona)
• Othello: Act 2 Scene 1

  "I fear/ My soul hath her content so absolute/ That not another comfort like to this/ Succeeds in unknown fate"
• Iago: Act 2 Scene 1

  "Well tuned" (Desdemona)
• Desdemona: Act 2 Scene 1

  (Iago misconstrues her 'playfulness') : "O, most lame and impotent conclusion!" (To Emilia)
• Cassio: Act 2 Scene 2

  "Fresh and delicate", "Modest", "Perfection" (On Desdemona)
• Iago: Act 2 Scene 3

  "So enfettered to her love" (Othello + Desdemona)
• Iago: Act 2 Scene 3

  "I'll pour this pestilence into his ear" (Othello)
• Iago: Act 3 Scene 1


  "I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor/ Out of the way" (To Cassio on Othello)
• Othello: Act 3 Scene 3

  "What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust?/ I saw't not, thought it not"
• Othello: Act 3 Scene 3

  "She had eyes and chose me!"
• Desdemona: Act 3 Scene 3

  "What e'er you be, I am obedient" (Othello)
• Othello: Act 4 Scene 1

  "Contaminated" (Desdemona), "I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!"
• Othello: Act 4 Scene 1

  "But yet the pity of it, Iago- O, Iago, the pity of it, Iago!"
• Othello: Act 4 Scene 1

  "O, it comes o'er my memory/ As doth the raven o'er the infectious house"
• Othello: Act 4 Scene 2

  "I cry you mercy then,/ I took you for that cunning whore of Venice/ That married with Othello"
• Desdemona: Act 4 Scene 2

  "I understand a fury in your words/ But not the words"
• Iago: Act 5 Scene 1

  He wants to murder Cassio because: "He hath a daily beauty in his life/ That makes me ugly"
• Bianaca: Act 5 Scene 1


  "I am no strumpet/ But of life as honest as you that thus/ Abuse me" (Emilia)
• Othello: Act 5 Scene 2

  "When we shall meet at compt (Day of Judgement)/ This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven/ And fiends will snatch at it" (To dead Desdemona)
• Othello: Act 5 Scene 2

  (Remember me as:) "One that love not wisely, but too well" (On himself)