Act 1-2: Iago’s "I know my price, I am worth no worse a place"

character "In following him, I follow but myself"

"I am not what I am"
"not I for love and duty/But seeming so for my peculiar end"
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/For daws to peck at"
"partly led to diet my revenge"
"nothing can or shall content my soul/'til I am even with him"
"I play the villain... for 'tis most easy"

Act 1, 2: Cassio in a "Nor the division of a battle knows/More than a spinster"

bad light "I fear the trust Othello puts him in"
"the virtue that appears in Cassio/And looks not on his evils"

Act 1: Othello (calm, "You have been hotly called for"

peaceful) "Let him do his spite"
"The Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem
to be so"
Act 1, 2: Iago’s "Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight"
schemes "Sir, you're robbed... You have lost half your soul"
"your fair daughter... hath made a gross revolt"
"Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes"
"spoke such scurvy and provoking terms/against your honour"
"to abuse Othello's ear/That he is too familiar with his wife"
"Thus do I ever make my fool my purse"
"Make the moor thank me, love me and reward me, for making him egregiously
an ass"
"'Tis a night of revels; the gallants desire it"
"He'll be as full of quarrel and offence"
"Now my sick fool Roderigo"
"She's framed as fruitful... His weak function"
"His soul is so enfettered to her love"
"Thar shall enmesh them all"
"We work by wit and not by witchcraft"
"I'll set her on... That's the way"
Act 1, 2: Prejudice "an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe"
against Othello "You'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse"
"You'll have your nephews neigh to you"
"I hate the Moor"
"It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue to her to love the Moor"
"she first loved the Moor, but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies"
"a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour, sympathy in years, manners and
beauties: all of which the Moor is defective in"
"she would never have loved the Moor"
Act 1, 2, 3: Othello’s "I love the gentle Desdemona"
love for Desdemona "questioned me the story of my life"
"I crave fit disposition for my wife"
"It was my hint to speak."
"She'd come again, and with a greedy ear/Devour up my discourse"
"I won his daughter"
"To fall in love with what she feared to look on?"
"It is a judgement maimed"
 "She loved me for the dangers I had passed/And I loved her that she did pity
them"
"That is the only witchcraft I have used"
"It gives me wonder great as my content to see you"
"If it were now to die/'Twere now to be most happy"
"I cannot speak enough of this content"
"I will deny thee nothing"
Act 1: Brabantio’s "O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter?"
reaction/ accusations "thou hast enchanted her"
"abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals"
"a maid so tender, fair and happy/So opposite to marriage that she shunned"
"I here do give thee that with all my heart"

Act 1: Desdemona and "It is too true an evil"

Brabantio "O unhappy girl!"
"O she deceives me"
"the property of youth and maidhood/May be abused
"My noble father... I am bound to you for life and education"

Act 1, 2: War/ military "'Tis a pageant/To keep us in false gaze"

related "We must not think the Turk is so unskilful"
"it is a high-wrought flood"
"O, let the heavens give him defence against the elements"
"This warlike isle"
"The wind does speak aloud at land, a fuller blast never shook our battlements"
Act 1, 2: Othello "Valiant Othello"
(respected/ showing "Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you"
respect) "the warlike Moor Othello... 'tis a worthy governor"
"our noble and valiant general"
"Heaven bless the isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!"
"Have you forgot all place of sense and duty?"
"The general speaks to you; hold, for shame!"

"My very noble and approved good masters"

"Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop"
Act 1-4: Desdemona’s "You are lord of all my duty... But here's my husband"
love for Othello "My heart's subdued/even to the very quality of my lord"
"Let me go with him"
"What tidings can you tell me of my lord... I fear"
"O, my fair warrior!"
"My dear Othello" (repeated)
“My love doth so approve him that even his stubbornness, his checks, his
frowns have grace and favour in me”
Act 1, 2, 3: Iago (false "A man he is of honesty and trust... I assign my wife"
impressions) "Honest Iago"
"good Iago"
"He is a good one, and his worthiness does challenge much respect"
“As honest as I am”
"Iago is most honest"
"Honest Iago... Speak. Who began this?"
"Your officer Iago can inform you"
 "Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter"
"I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth/ Than it should do offence to
Michael Cassio"
"But men are men; the best sometimes forget"
"I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest"
"Is he not honest?"
"I know thou'rt full of love and honesty"
"I am bound to thee for ever"
"This fellows of exceeding honesty"

Act 1, 2: Roderigo and "I will incontinently drown myself"

Iago "It is silliness to live when to live is to torment"

"I never found a man that knew how to love himself"

"The Moors are changeable in their wills"
"Our bodies are the gardens to which our wills are the gardeners"
"Thou art sure of me"
"Why, there's no remedy. 'Tis the curse of service"
"We cannot all be masters"
"compel her to some second choice"
"the knave is handsome, young and hath all those requisites in him"
Act 2-4: Desdemona "The divine Desdemona"
as pure "she be fair and wise, fairness and wit"
"a most exquisite lady"
"a most fresh and delicate creature"
"She is indeed perfection"
"Truly an obedient lady"
"A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman"
"Nor ever heard, not ever did suspect"
"Never, my lord... Never"
"She is honest... The purest of their wives"
"If any wretch have put this in your heaved/Let heaven requite it with the
serpent's curse"

Act 2, 3: Iago (Emilia, "she give you so much of her lips… too much"
Des and treatment of "you are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlour... players in your
women) housewifery and housewives in your bed"
"To have a foolish wife"
"Why, what's that to you?"
"Go, leave me"
"You are a fool"

"if thou shouldst praise me"

"I am not merry"
"O lame and impotent conclusion"
"O, heavy ignorance!"
Act 1, 2, 3, 4: Cassio’s "'Tis my breeding/That gives me this bold show of courtesy"
mannerisms/ "I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking"
treatment of women "I'll knock you o'er the mazzard"
"you rogue, you rascal"
"the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath"
 "I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly”

"Alas, poor rogue! I think, in faith she loves me"

"I prithee, bear some charity to my wit"
"Ha, ha, ha!"

"I was a fine fool to take it"

"Keep a week away? O weary reckoning!"
"Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth"

Act 2: Iago and Cassio "Reputation, reputation, reputation"

"O, I have lost my reputation... the immortal part of myself"
"I despise myself"
"You advise me well"

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition"

"You have lost no reputation at all"
"You are too severe a moraler"
"I think you think I love you"
"in the sincerity of love and honest kindness"
"Confess yourself freely to her"
"She is of so free, so kind"
"this crack of your love shall grow stronger"
Act 3: Cassio and "And she speaks for you stoutly"
Desdemona "But he protests he loves you"

"Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do all my abilities in thy behalf"
"I will have my lord and you again/As friendly as you were"
"Be merry Cassio"
"he's penitent"
"Good love, call him back"

"I am much bound to you"

"My general will forget my love and service"
"I am very ill at ease"
"I may again exist and be a member of his love"
"I would not be delayed"

Act 3: Iago’s schemes "I cannot think it/That he would steal away so guilty like that seeing you
coming"
"My noble lord… you know I love you"
"I am your own for ever"
"Did Michael Cassio... Know of your love?"
"O beware, my lord, of jealousy"
"the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on"
"Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio"
"She did deceive her father, marrying you"
"O heaven forgive me!"
"O wretched fool that lov'st to make thine honesty a vice"
"I do repent me that I put it to you"
"It were a tedious difficulty"
 "Pricked to't by foolish honesty and love"
("Sweet Desdemona... Let us hide our loves")
"My friend is dead... But let her live"
Act 3: Othello’s "Such things in a false disloyal knave are tricks of custom"
growing doubt "Why, say they are vile and false"
"No... I'd make a life of jealousy"
"My wife is fair, feeds well, loves company"
"I draw the smallest fear or doubt of her revolt"
"For she had eyes when she chose me"
"I'll not believe it"
"Why did I marry?"
"I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind"
"I had rather be a toad... Than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses"
"She's gone, I am abused and my relief must be to loath her"
"'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death"
"False to me... Thou hast set me on the rock"
"thou prove my love a whore... Ocular proof"
"I think my wife be honest, and think she is not"
"I'll tear her all to pieces"
Act 3: Othello as a "I saw't not, thought it not, it harmed not me"
changed man "Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!"
(distressed) "O, monstrous, monstrous!"
"Death and damnation!"
"I'll not endure it"
"Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell"
"my bloody thoughts with violent pace shall ne'er look back"
"Men should be what they seem"
"Give thy worst of thoughts/The worst of thoughts"
"Pardon me"
"My lord, I see you're moved"
"One is too poor, too weak, for my revenge"
"Why do you speak so startlingly and rash?"
"My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him"

Act 3, 4: The "I'm glad I have found this napkin"

handkerchief "My wayward husband hath a hundred times/Wooed me to steal it"
"I'll have the work tane out and give't to Iago"
"I nothing but to please his fantasy"
"Give it to me"
"I have use for it"
"Let him find it"
"The jealous confirmations strong/As proofs of holy wit"
"Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons"
"Have you not sometimes seen as handkerchief?"
"I know not, madam"
"I had rather lose my purse full of crusados"
"I am most unhappy in the loss of it"
"'Twas that hand that gave away my heart"
"That's a fault"
"if she lost it... Should hold her loathed"
"She dying gave it to me"
 "To lose or to give it away were such perdition"
"The handkerchief... The handkerchief"
"By heaven, that should be my handkerchief"
"She gave it to him and he hath given it to his whore"

Act 3: Emilia and "Is this man not jealous?"

Desdemona "Jealous souls will not be answered to... 'tis a monster"
"They are not ever jealous for the cause."

"I was - unhandsome warrior as I am - arranging his unkindness with my soul"

"I never gave him cause"
Act 4: Othello "It is hypocrisy against the devil"
(distraught, furious at "I would most gladly have forgot it"
Des) "Lie with her? Lie on her?"
"To confess and be hanged for his labour"
"I tremble at it... O devil!"
"Are you sure of that?"
"I am glad to see you mad"
"Devil!"
"Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell"
"Are you not a strumpet... Not a whore?"
"This is a subtle whore"
"A closet lock and key of villainous secrets"
"I took you for that cunning whore of Venice"

"My lord?"
"A most unhappy one"
"I have not deserved this."
"I will not stay to offend you"
"I understand a fury in your words/But not the words"
"Your true and loyal wife"
"Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?"
"How am I false?... What ignorant sin have I committed?"
"I hope my noble lord esteems me honest"
"I cannot weep, nor answers have I none"
Act 4: Iago’s schemes "Her honour is an essence that's not seen"
"Thus credulous fools are caught"
"I mock you? No, by heaven!"
"He hath and is again to cope your wife"
"He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain from the excess of laughter"
"Look how he laughs already!"
"Nay, you must forget that"
"Do it not with poison; strangle her in bed"
Act 4: Othello’s "How shall I murder him, Iago?"
dependence on Iago "I would have him nine years a-killing"
"Let her rot and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live"
"My heart is turned to stone"
"I will chop her into messes"
"The justice of it pleases; very good"

Act 4, 5: Defending "Is this his nature?"

Desdemona "What! Strike his wife!"
(Lodovico, Emilia) "I am sorry that I am deceived in him"
"He is much changed"

"my lord hath so bewhored her... He called her whore"

"I will be hanged if some eternal villain... Have not devised this slander"
"Why should he call her whore?"
"The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave"
"O, the more angel she/And you, the blacker devil"
"O she was heavenly true"
"For thou hast killed the sweetest innocent/that ever did lift up eye"
"She loved thee, cruel Moor"
Act 4: Desdemona "It is my wretched fortune"
(helpless, distressed) "What shall I do to win my lord again?"
"I know not how I lost him"
"His unkindness may defeat my life/But never taint my love"
“O these men, these men!”
“How foolish are our minds?”
“I have much to do but to hang my head all at one side and sing it like poor
Barbary”
Act 4: Roderigo and "I do not find that thou deal'st justly with me"
Iago "Thou daff'st me with some device"
"I have foolishly suffered... I find none"
"your words and performances are no kin together"
"I have wasted myself out of my means"
"'tis not very well. I will make myself known to Desdemona"
"Assure yourself, I will seek satisfaction of you"

"I protest I have dealt most directly in thy affair"

"Your suspicion is not without wit and judgement"
"I have greater reason to believe now than ever - purpose, courage and valour"
"Do yourself a profit and a right"
"You shall be satisfied"
Act 4: Emilia’s outlook "The world's a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice"
on life "Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch"
"I do think it is their husband's fault is wives do fall"
"We have galls, we have some grace, yet have we some revenge"
"And have we not affections, desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?"
Act 5: Iago’s "Fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow"
murders/manipulation "I have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense"
"Every way makes my gain"
"Iago keeps his word"
"O brave Iago, honest and just!"
"O wretched villain!"
"I shall bleed to death!"
"I am maimed forever. Murder, murder!"
"O, I am spoiled, undone my villains"
"Who's there?"
"What villains have done this?"
"O treacherous villains! O murderous slave!
"O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!"
 "O, heaven, Roderigo!"
"My friend and my dear countryman"
"Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?"
"Nay, guiltiness"
"I charge you go with me"
"Demand me nothing... from this time forth I never will speak word.
Act 5: Iago exposed "I found it in my chamber"
"Iago hurt him, Iago set him on"
"May his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day!"
"O thou dull Moor. I found by fortune and did give my husband"
“My husband?”
"Men must lay their murders on your neck"
"You told a lie, an odious damned lie, a wicked lie!"
Act 5: Mistreatment "O, falsely, falsely murdered!"
of women "A guiltless death I die"
"Nobody; I myself. Farewell"
"Have mercy on me!"
"I fear you"
"Death's unnatural that kills for loving"
"No, by my life and soul!"
"I never did offend you in my life"
"Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight!"

"She's like a liar gone to burning hell!"

"'Twas I that killed her."
"She was as false as water"
"O, she was foul"
"You heard her say herself it was not I."

"I'll make thee known, though I lost twenty lives"

"The Moor hath killed my mistress. Murder, murder!"
"I am bound to speak"
"Villainy, villainy, villainy!"
"I'll kill myself for grief"
"O lay me by my mistress' side"
“Villainous whore”
"That was my lady's voice!"
Act 5: Othello’s inner "I'll not shed her blood"
conflict "She must die, else she'll betray more men"
"O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade/Justice to break her sword"
"I will kill thee and love thee after"
"They are cruel tears"
"She's dead"
"My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife,"
Act 5: Othello in "Villainy hath made mocks with love!"
reflection "Why should honour outlive honesty?"
"Who can control his fate?"
"Here is my journey's end"
"For in my sense, 'tis happiness to die!"
"O fool, fool, fool!"
"I kissed thee here, I killed thee"
"Killing myself to die upon a kiss"
"one that loved not wisely but too well"
"one not easily jealous, but being wrought"
"threw a pearl away/richer than all his tribe"