Othello- Quotes - Themes - Jealousy, Gender and Sexuality, Love and War, Honesty and Deception and Race

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Jealousy

"They are not ever jealous for the cause...But jealous for they're jealous." - Emilia (3.4.156-157)

"Is thought abroad that twixt my sheets...He's done my office. I know not if't be true." - Iago (1.3.381-382)

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy...it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock...the meat it feeds on." - Iago (3.3.164-166)

"I fear Cassio with my night-cap too." - Iago (2.1.298)

"Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought... perplexed in the extreme." - Othello (5.2.341-342)

"Jealous souls...are not ever jealous for the cause." - Emilia (3.4.155-156)

"Eaten up with passion." - Iago (3.3.388)

"Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards." - Iago (2.1.288)

"Monster...begot upon itself, born on itself." - Emilia (3.4.157-158)

"Daily beauty...makes me ugly." - Iago (5.1.19)

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Gender and Sexuality

"Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." - Iago (1.1.116-118)

"A maiden never bold...of spirit so still and quiet." - Brabantio (1.3.94-95)

"She has decieved her father." - Brabantio (1.1.290)

"You rise to play, and go to bed to work." - Iago (2.1.114)

"They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us." - Emilia (3.4.100-102)

"I took you for that cunning whore of Venice...that married with Othello." - Othello (4.2.88-89)

"I do think it is their husbands' faults...if wives do fall." - Emilia (4.3.85.86)

"And think it no addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned." - Cassio (3.4.190-191)

"I nothing, but to please his fantasy." - Emilia (3.3.296)

"Tis proper I obey him- but not now." - Emilia (5.2.195)

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Love and War

"She loved me for the dangers I had passed...and I loved her that she did pity them." - Othello (1.3.166-167)

"Othello's occupation's gone." - Othello (3.3.354)

"I do love thee! And when I love thee not...chaos has come again." - Othello (3.3.91-92)

"She was half the wooer." - Brabantio (1.3.174)

"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men." - Othello (5.2.6)

"I have done the state some service, and they know't" - Othello (5.2.335)

"I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss." - Othello (5.2.345-355)

Othello: "Now art thou my lieutenant."

Iago: "I am your own for ever." (5.2.335)

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Race

"An old black ram is tupping your white ewe." - Iago (1.1.89-90)

"Haply for I am black...and have not these soft parts of conversation." - Othello (3.3.260-261)

"Your son-in-law is more fair than black." - Duke (1.3.287)

"Against all rules of nature" - Brabantio (1.3.101)

"The more angel she...and you the blacker devil." - Emilia (5.2.131-132)

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Honesty and Deception

"The Moor is of a free and open nature...that thinks men honest that but seem to be so." - Iago (1.3.393-394)

"And what's he then that says I play the villain?...When this advice is free I give and honest." - Iago (2.3.326-327)

"I think my wife be honest, and think she is not, I think thou art just, and think thou art not." - Othello (3.3.381-382)

"My friend thy husband, honest, honest Iago." - Othello (5.2.153)

"I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you, that thus abuse me." - Bianca (5.1.122-123)

"I am not what I am." - Iago (1.1.66)

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