Othello

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: In following him, I follow but myself.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 1, sc. 1, l. 58.

QUOTATION: She was false as water.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 134.

QUOTATION: An admirable musician! O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 4, sc. 1, l. 187-9.

QUOTATION: I never did like molestation view
On the enchafèd flood.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. 2nd Gentleman, in Othello, act 2, sc. 1, l. 16-17.

QUOTATION: By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be shown.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3, l. 106-8.

QUOTATION: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 3, sc. 3, l. 155-6.

QUOTATION: ‘Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th’ first.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British poet. Othello (I, i).

QUOTATION: The Moor—howbeit that I endure him not—
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
And I dare think he’ll prove to Desdemona
A most dear husband.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 2, sc. 1, l. 288-91.

QUOTATION: A fellow almost damned in a fair wife.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 1, sc. 1, l. 22.

QUOTATION: Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 3-5.

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