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Othello quotes
14 quotes from Othello by William Shakespeare. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #1531 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
— Iago · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In complement extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— Iago · Act I, Scene I — Venice. A street
Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me.
— Othello · Act V, Scene II — Cyprus. A Bedchamber in the castle
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
— Othello · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore; Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof, Or, by the worth of man’s eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my wak’d wrath.
— Othello · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.
— Iago · Act I, Scene III — Venice. A council chamber
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
— Iago · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!
— Cassio · Act II, Scene III — A Hall in the Castle
Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
— Iago · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.
— Iago · Act V, Scene II — Cyprus. A Bedchamber in the castle
Zounds, sir, you’re robb’d, for shame put on your gown, Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul; Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.
— Iago · Act I, Scene I — Venice. A street
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
— Othello · Act I, Scene II — Venice. Another street
Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
— Iago · Act III, Scene III — Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
— Emilia · Act IV, Scene III — Cyprus. Another Room in the Castle