Othello

Famous lines

In following him, I follow but myself...

Iago, Act 1, Scene 1

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Iago, Act 1, Scene 1

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe.

Iago, Act 1, Scene 1

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

Iago, Act 1, Scene 1

She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them.

Othello, Act 1, Scene 3

Put money in thy purse.

Iago, Act 1, Scene 3

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

Cassio, Act 2, Scene 4

I have very poor and
unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish
courtesy would invent some other custom of
entertainment.

Cassio, Act 2, Scene 3

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Iago, Act 2, Scene 3

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

Iago, Act 3, Scene 3

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.

Othello, Act 3, Scene 3

But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall...

Emilia, Act 4, Scene 3

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. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?

Emilia, Act 4, Scene 3

His unkindness may defeat my life
But never taint my love.

Desdemona, Act 4, Scene 2

Have you pray'd tonight, Desdemona?

Othello, Act 5, Scene 2

I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

Othello, Act 5, Scene 2

Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.

Othello, Act 5, Scene 2


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