Othello quotes

I am not what I am. – Iago

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. – Iago

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

Put money in thy purse. – Iago

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. – Iago

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners. – Iago

If thou dost slander her and torture me, never pray more; abandon all remorse. – Othello

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster. – Othello

It is not honesty in me to speak what I have seen and known. – Iago

Othello told me I should make her turn, and Iago said no more. – Roderigo

I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable. – Othello

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

I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others’ uses. – Othello

She loved me early, and for loving me she wronged her father. – Othello

What’s to do? Be not acknown on ‘t; I have use for it. – Iago

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again. – Othello

O, it comes o’er my memory as doth the raven o’er the infected house, boding to all. – Othello

Othello quotes part 2

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

Men should be what they seem, or those that be not, would they might seem none! – Iago

I understand a fury in your words, but not the words. – Desdemona

If I do prove her haggard, though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I ‘ld whistle her off and let her down the wind to pray at fortune. – Othello

She was in love, and he she loved proved mad and did forsake her. – Othello

I pray you, in your letters, when you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am. – Othello

Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. – Othello

Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated. – Iago

I kiss’d thee ere I killed thee. – Othello

Marry, sir, with pestilence! Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false? As where’s that palace wherein to gnaw the ground? – Iago

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. – Iago

With as little web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. – Iago

There’s millions now alive that nightly lie in those unproper beds which they dare swear peculiar. – Othello

By Janus, I think no. – Iago

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. – Othello

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls. – Iago

I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office. – Iago

It were not for your quiet, nor your good, nor for my manhood, honesty, and wisdom to let you know my thoughts. – Othello

Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, as salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross as ignorance made drunk. – Iago

I will be found most cunning in my patience, but – dost thou hear? – most bloody. – Iago

I saw Othello’s visage in his mind; and to his honors and his valiant parts did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. – Iago

It was a violent commencement in her, but thou shalt see an answerable sequestration. – Iago

This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds. – Othello

She was a whore. Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil. – Othello

O gentlemen, help ho! Awake, what ho! Brabantio! Thieves! Thieves! – Iago

O, blood, blood, blood! – Othello

Thus credulous fools are caught, and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach. – Othello

And what’s he, then, that says I play the villain? – Iago