Othello

Famous quotes

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

  Act I, Scene I, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Truth & Lies

• Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • War & Peace

• The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief;
  He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  Act I, Scene III, spoken by DukeIn context

  • Emotion

• Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
  She has deceiv’d her father, and may thee.

  Act I, Scene III, spoken by BrabantioIn context

  • Truth & Lies

• But men are men; the best sometimes forget

  Act II, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Men

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

  Act II, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Honor

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

  Act III, Scene III, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • Love

• Men should be what they seem;
  Or those that be not, would they might seem none!

  Act III, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Truth & Lies

• Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
  Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
  Who steals my purse steals trash. ’Tis something, nothing;
  ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
  But he that filches from me my good name
  Robs me of that which not enriches him
  And makes me poor indeed.

  Act III, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Honor

• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
  It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
  The meat it feeds on.

  Act III, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context

  • Envy
  • Love

• O, now, for ever
  Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!

  Act III, Scene III, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • Emotion

• Put out the light, and then put out the light

  Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • Life & Death

• Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
  Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
  Of one that loved not wisely, but too well

  Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • Love

• I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this,
  Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

  Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context

  • Life & Death
  • Love

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