A quotes bank containing key quotes from Shakespeare's play 'Othello'. Categorised into themes: Othello, jealousy, women's presentation (broken down into Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca), public vs. private, race, love, marriage and others. From there, it is broken down into acts and scenes, and each ...
Colour Key: Who said the quote? Iago Othello Desdemona Emilia Brabantio Cassio Bianca Other (specified)
Act Scene Othello Women Public/Private Race Love and Other
Marriage
Honourable Selfish Desdemona
“But he, as “You have lost half your soul” (To “What a full “That never set
loving his own Brabantio) fortune does the a squadron in
pride and thick lips owe” the field”.
purposes” Rodrigo
“Bombast “Gone she is” “Are your doors locked?... An old black ram “Mere prattle
circumstance, is tupping your white ewe” without
horribly stuffed “How got she out? practice is all
with epithets his soldiership”
of war” (About Cassio)
“Preferment “The devil will
Scene I goes by letter make a grand sire
and affection, of you”
not by the old
gradation”
“Obsequious “a Barbary horse, you’ll have your nephews
bondage” neigh… coursers for cousins and jennets for
Germans”
Act
“with a knave of
One
common hire”
“O treason of the blood!”
“When I know “But that I love the gentle Desdemona” “Thou hast “Are you fast
that boasting enchanted her” married?”
is an honour, I
shall
provulgate”
“My parts, my title and my “Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land “The wealthy
Scene
perfect soul shall manifest me carrack” (Iago misogyny) curled darlings of
II
rightly” our nation”
“Down with him thief” “O thou foul thief” “Thou hast
practised on her
with foul charms…
drugs or minerals”
, Colour Key: Who said the quote? Iago Othello Desdemona Emilia Brabantio Cassio Bianca Other (specified)
“Valiant “And knew “Dead?” “Ay, to me” “A Turkish fleet, and “By spells and “To fall I love with To make him a
Othello we how to love bearing up to medicines bought what she feared to “cuckold” is a
must straight himself” Cyprus” Senator of mountebanks look on?” “sport to” Iago.
employ you”
Duke
“Most potent, “I hate the “I won his daughter” “Her father loved “Your son in law is “Against all rules of
grave and moor” “My me, oft invited me” far more fair than nature, and must be
reverend cause is “I do beseech you send for the lady to the to speak of his black” Duke driven”
signiors” hearted, thine sagittary and let her speak” adventures as a
hath no less soldier. Brabantio
“I will a round reason” “She wished that heaven had made her trusts him in a “I saw Othello’s’ “Let your sentence
unvarnished such a man” visage in his mind” even fall upon my
Motiveless public sphere but
tale deliver” life” (He has complete
Malignancy “I do perceive here a divided duty” not a private
trust in Desdemona)
sphere.
Act “She’d come again and with a greedy ear devour up my discourse” “Let the “These Moors are “We are thus or thus”
One housewives make a changeable” Rodrigo
skillet”
Scene “Thought “I challenge that I may profess due to the “If I had a friend “As luscious as “If I be left behind, a
III abroad that Moor my Lord” that loved her, I locuses” moth of peace”
twixt my should but teach
sheets” “for your sake jewel” him how to tell my “My life upon her
story, and that faith”
would woo her.
Upon this hint I
“Nor would I” spake.” Othello “Must bring this “I confess it is my
commands in public monstrous birth to shame to be so fond,
“Let her have her voice” but is shy in private. the world’s light” but it is not in my
virtue to amend it”
Rodrigo
“The Moor is “Not to please the palate of my appetite, “words and words” “words and wors”
of a free and but to be free and bounteous to her mind” “bruised heart” “bruised heart”
open nature”
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