An Othello quote bank I composed for English Literature A level AQA, organised into common and nuanced themes such as love, loyalty and jealousy and many more, including all acts and characters specified (does not include analysis however). Happy revising! :)
‘And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician’ - Iago (Act 1 Scene 1)
‘That never set field in a squadron’ - Iago (Act 1 Scene 1)
‘I do suspect the lusty moor hath leaped into my seat’ - Iago (Act 2 Scene 1)
‘It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on’ - Iago (Act 3 Scene 3)
- colour imagery
‘Are to the jealous confirmations strong. As proofs of holy writ’ - Iago (Act 3 Scene 3) -
Shakespeare is trying to say how jealousy ruins the authenticity of justice, hampers the
pursuit of Justice
‘Some monster in his thought’ - Iago (Act 3 Scene 3)
"The moor already changes with my poison" - Iago (Act 3 Scene 3)
‘But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster. Begot upon itself’ - Emilia (Act 3 Scene
4)
‘I think the sun where he was born drew all such humor’s from him’ - Desdemona (Act 4
Scene 3)
‘One not easily jealous but being wrought…one whose hand threw a pearl away rich
than all his tribe’ - Othello (Act 5 Scene 2)
Love and marriage
‘But I love the gentle Desdemona’ - Othello (Act 1 Scene 2)
‘Unvarnished tale…. I won his daughter’ - Othello (Act 1 Scene 3)
"I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband" - Desdemona (Act 1 Scene 3)
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed’ - Othello (Act 1 Scene 3)
, ‘I did thrive in this fair lady’s love, and she in mine’ - Othello (Act 1 Scene 3)
‘Captain’s captain’ - Cassio (Act 2 Scene 1)
‘If after every tempest come such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened
death’ - Othello (Act 2 Scene 1)
‘the greatest discords be. That our hearts shall make.’ - Othello (Act 2 Scene 1)
‘The purchase made. The fruits are to ensue’ - Othello (Act 2 Scene 3)
‘His soul is so enfetter’d to her love’ - Iago (Act 2 Scene 3)
‘In Venice, they do let God see the Pranks…They dare not show their husbands.’ - Iago
(Act 3 Scene 3)
"For she had eyes and chose me." - Othello (Act 3 Scene 3)
‘I nothing but to please his fantasy’ - Emilia (Act 3 Scene 3)
"Her name, that was as fresh…is now begrimed and black. As mine own face " - Othello
(Act3 Scene 3)
‘O curse of marriage/That we can call these delicate creatures ours/And not their
appetites’ - Othello (Act 3 Scene 3)
‘You are a fool, go to’ - Iago to Emilia (Act 4 Scene 2)
‘my love false love’ - Desdemona (Act 4 Scene 3)
‘Sing willow willow willow’ - Desdemona (Act 4 Scene 3)
"Let husbands know/Their wives have sense like them" - Emilia (Act 4 Scene 3)
‘I do think it is their husbands' faults/If wives do fall" - Emilia (Act 4 Scene 3)
I know not where is that Promethean heat. That can thy light relume.’ - Othello (Act 5
Scene 2)
‘Nobody; I myself. Farewell.’ - Desdemona (Act 5 Scene 2)
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