Othello Quotes

This is an A-Level English revision quiz that covers Othello quotes.
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Person
Quote
Racism - sexual comments to proboke Brabantio, and impying that non-Whites are animals.
1 : 1
Iago
'your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.'
Sexism - To betray the patriarchal system (through marrying independently), you betray the state.
 
Brabantio
'O treason of the blood!'
Virtues - Othello is confident in his virtues as a person.
1 : 2
Othello
'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.'
Racism - Brabantio is conviced that one mixed race couple will collapse the civilised Venitian society.
 
Brabantio
'For if such actions may have passage free, bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.'
Virtues - Othello is held in high regard by the Venetian Duke.
1 : 3
Duke
'Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman.'
Racism - Brabantio does not believe Othello could simply 'win' Desdemona, and that she had to have been corrupted.
 
Brabantio
'She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted by spells'
Virtues - Othello and Desdemona have a pure love based on compassion.
 
Othello
'She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.'
Virtues - Othello is considered good natured and civil, unrepresentative of his skin colour.
 
Duke
'Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.'
Deception - Iago convinces Roderigo to fund him for his endeavours.
 
Iago
'Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.'
Deception - We expect a large naval battle, but instead the Ottoman fleet is removed without a second glance.
2 : 1
Gentleman
'The desperate temperest hath so banged the Turks'
Virtues - Away from Venice, Othello is complemented regularly.
 
Montano
'tis a worthy governor.'
Virtues - Desdemona has control over Othello, likely due to their love.
 
Cassio
'our great captain's captain.'
Sexism - Iago argues that a woman's job is to produce children.
 
Iago
'You rise to play and go to bed to work.'
Virtues - Othello portrays Desdemona as strong, yet gentle.
 
Othello
'O, my fair warrior!'
Deception - Iago believes he has a motive for his actions, yet, it conflicts with his other motives of career advancement and racism. Is he decieving the audience?
 
Iago
''For that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat.'
Virtues - Othello is further complimented.
2 : 2
Herald
'our noble and valiant general.'
Virtues - Compliments towards Cassio.
2 : 3
Iago
'He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar.'
Racism - Argues that Turks are synonomous with savagery and ill-behaviour.
 
Othello
'Are we turned Turks'
Deception - Repeated throughout the play by a variety of characters. An oxymoron.
 
Othello
'Honest Iago.'
Deception - By showing that he doesn't want to do harm to Cassio, Othello infers that Iago is watering down the truth to protect Cassio. Iago decieves Othello expertly.
 
Iago
'I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.'
Virtues - Cassio cares mostly about his social standing and that is what drives his character.
 
Cassio
'O, I have lost my reputation!'
Virtues - Othello appears to still love Cassio, yet he is obliged to refuse him.
3 : 1
Emilia
'He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you.'
Deception - The use of language here by Iago suggests to Othello that Cassio is guilty and a thief, setting that thought into Othello's mind.
3 : 3
Iago
'Cassio, my lord? No, sure I cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty-like.'
Virtues - Jealousy is seen as a negative force which corrupts and harms, Iago even gives this warning, yet Othello embraces it all the same, and this description prooves accurate.
 
Iago
'O beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.'
Virtues - She's an angel, if she were to be false, it would be God mocking its own heralds.
 
Othello
'If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself; I'll not believe it.'
Deception - True to Othello, if he was wise then he would not be blinded by Iago's 'honsety'.
 
Iago
'I should be wise; for honesty's a fool.'
Racism - Othello releases his innate self from his suppressed mental blockades.
 
Othello
'Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!'
Virtues - Othello argues that Desdemona needs to become more chaste, as does their marriage (represented by the hand).
3 : 4
Othello
'This hand of yours requires a sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer.'
Virtues - Cassio does not want to be seen with Bianca as it would damage his reputation, something he values above love.
 
Cassio
'And think it no addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned.'
Deception - Iago brags about how effective his deception is, how he has ensnared worthy and good characters, all innocent, into his schemes and plots.
4 : 1
Iago
'Thus credulous fools are caught; and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach.
Virtues - Iago implies that it is a whores destiny to beguile many men, yet to fall for one, someone who is typically unattainable.
 
Iago
'tis the strumpets plague to beguile many and be beguiled by one.'
Virtues - Othello claims that his love has faded, it has hardened and is uncomprimising.
 
Othello
'No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my hand.'
Virtues - People would not believe that Othello had fallen so far as to strike his wife.
 
Lodovico
'My lord, this would not be believed in Venice.'
Virtues - Emilia is confident that Desdemona is innocent.
4 : 2
Emilia
'to wager she is honest, lay down my soul at stake.'
Deception - Despite Desdemona claiming to be innocent, Othello remains unconvinced, showing how deep Iago's manipulation has struck him.
 
Othello
'I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello.'
Deception - Emilia figures out that Othello has been manipulated.
 
Emilia
'The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave.'
Sexism - Emilia argues that it is men who are to blame for a wives fall.
4 : 3
Emilia
'I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.'
Sexism - Emilia argues that women are just as sensible as men are.
 
Emilia
'Let husbands know their wives have sense like them.'
Deception - Othello believes Desdemona's lover to be dead, both are falsehoods.
5 : 1
Othello
'Minion, your dear lies dead, and your unblest fate lies.'
Sexism - Othello still values Desdemona's body, and he thinks of her body as valuable still, despite his issues with her person.
5 : 2
Othello
'Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.'
Virtues - Othello believes he's lost his wife, through her death and through her 'adultery'.
 
Othello
'My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.'
Virtues - Desdemona dies innocent.
 
Desdemona
'A guiltless death I die.'
Racism - Through killing his wife, the 'black' in Othello comes out, paralleling the devil.
 
Emilia
'O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.'
Virtues - Links to baptism and cleanliness.
 
Othello
'She was false as water.'
Deception - Emilia figures out Iago's deception before any man and wishes him to suffer.
 
Emilia
'may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day!'
Sexism - Emilia stands against Iago and is bound to speak through her independence.
 
Emilia
'I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak.'
Virtues - Brabantio is hardly mentioned.
 
Lodovico
'I am glad thy father's dead.'
Virtues - Othello wishes to be cleansed through harsh punishment in hell.
 
Othello
'Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire.'
Virtues - Othello doesn't see himself as who he was, Iago's manipulation has changed him.
 
Othello
'That he that was Othello: here I am.'
Deception - Othello believes that Iago should suffer, and that death is too quick for him.
 
Othello
'For in my sense 'tis happiness to die.'
Deception - Othello acknowledges that he was caught by Iago in his schemes.
 
Othello
'Why he hath ensnared my soul and body?'
Virtues - Othello doesn't want his final deed to block out all the good he has done, that is not who he is, he's a valiant warrior.
 
Othello
'When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate.'
Virtues - Othello sees himself as losing the most valuable artifact he could, Desdemona, which was worthier than anything else.
 
Othello
'Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe.'
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