Othello

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
I would not my unhousèd free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea’s worth.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 1, sc. 2, l. 25-8.

QUOTATION: Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 1, sc. 1, l. 14 (1623).

QUOTATION: Who can control his fate?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 265.

QUOTATION: Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 1, sc. 2, l. 83-4

QUOTATION: O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content,
Farewell the plumèd troops and the big wars
That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3, l. 347-50.

QUOTATION: She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loathe her.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3.

QUOTATION: I do perceive here a divided duty.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Desdemona, in Othello, act 1, sc. 3, l. 181.

QUOTATION: I greet thy love,
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3, l. 469-70.

QUOTATION: If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself!
I’ll not believe’t.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3, l. 278-9.

QUOTATION: Murder’s out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 115-6.

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