Othello - key quotes II

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Iago: "In following him I follow but myself" (1.1.59)
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Iago: "Thus do I ever make my fool my purse" (1.3.377)
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Cassio: "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation, I have lost the immortal part of myself - and what remains is bestial' (2.3.255-257)
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Iago: "He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly" (5.1.19-20)
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Desdemona: 'A guiltless death I die.' Emilia: 'O, who hath done/This deed?' Desdemona: "Nobody. I myself' (5.2.123-125)
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Iago: 'Demand me nothing. What you know, you know From this time forth I never will speak word. (5.2.300-301)
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Emilia: 'They are not ever jealous for the cause,/But jealous for they're jealous' (3.4.156-157)
Jealousy
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Iago: 'Is thought abroad the 'twixt my sheets/He's done my office. I know not if't be true' (1.3.381-382)
Jealousy
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Iago: 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on' (3.3.164-166)
Jealousy
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Iago: 'I fear Cassio with my night-cap too' (2.1.298)
Jealousy
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Othello: 'Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,/Perplexed in the extreme' (5.2.341-342)
Jealousy
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Iago: 'Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs' (1.1.116-118)
Gender and sexuality
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Brabantio: 'A maiden never bold/Of spirit so still and quiet' (1.3.94-95)
Gender and sexuality
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Brabantio: 'She has deceived her father, and may thee' (1.3.290)
Gender and sexuality
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Iago: 'You rise to play, and go to bed to work' (2.1.114)
Gender and sexuality
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Emilia: 'They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us' (3.4.100-102)
Gender and sexuality
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Cassio: "And think it no addition, nor my wish, To have him see me womaned' (3.4.190-191)
Gender and sexuality
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Emilia: 'I nothing, but to please his fantasy' (3.3.296)
Gender and sexuality
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Othello: 'I took you for that cunning whore of Venice/That married with Othello' (4.2.88-89)
Gender and sexuality
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Emilia: 'I do not think it is their husbands' faults/If wives do fall' (4.3.85-86)
Gender and sexuality
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Othello: 'She loved me for the dangers I passed/And I loved her that she did pity them' (1.3.166-167)
Love and war
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Othello: 'Othello's occupation's gone' (3.3.354)
Love and war
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Brabantio: 'She was half the wooer' (1.3.174)
Love and war
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Othello: 'I do love thee! And when I love thee not/Chaos is come again' (3.3.91-92)
Love and war
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Othello: 'Now art thou my lieutenant.' Iago: 'I am your own for ever' (3.3.475-476)
Love and war
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Othello: 'Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men' (5.2.6)
Love and war
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Othello: 'I have done the state some service, and they know't:' (5.2.335)
Love and war
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Othello: 'I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss' (5.2.354-355)
Love and war
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Iago: 'An old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe!' (1.1.89-90)
Race
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Othello: 'Haply for I am black/And have not those soft parts of conversation' (3.3.260-261)
Race
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Duke: 'Your son-in-law is more fair than black' (1.3.287)
Race
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Brabantio: 'Against all rules of nature' (1.3.101)
Race
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Iago: 'The Moor is of free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so' (1.3.393-394)
Honesty and Deception
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Iago: 'And what's he then that says I play the villain?/When this advice is free I give and honest' (2.3.326-327)
Honesty and Deception
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Othello: 'I think my wife be honest, and think she is not, I think that thou are just, and think thou art not' (3.3.381-382)
Honesty and Deception
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Bianca: 'I am no strumpet, but of life as honest As you, that thus abuse me.' (5.1.122-123)
Honesty and Deception
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Othello: 'My friend thy husband, honest, honest Iago' (5.2.153)
Honesty and Deception
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Iago: 'I am not what I am' (1.1.66)
Honesty and Deception
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'...the tragical part is, plainly none other, than a Bloody Farce, without salt or savour'
Thomas Rymer (critic)
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'...we learn from Othello this very useful moral, not to make an unequal match; in the second place, we learn not to yield to readily to suspicion'
Samuel Johnson (critic)
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'...a great man naturally modest but fully conscious of his worth...'
A.C. Bradley (critic)
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'...I have never read a more terrible exposure of human weakness..than the last great speech of Othello...#
T.S. Eliot (critic)
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