Othello Quotes

“But jealous souls will not be answer’d so... ‘tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself” - Theme of jealousy, 3.4

“So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true” - Theme of womanhood and sexuality, symbol of handkerchief, 5.2

“My wayward husband hath a hundred times woo’d me to steal it” - Symbol of handkerchief, 3.3

“Honest Iago” - Themes of appearance v reality and tragic hero, 1.3

“Put out the light, and then put out the light... when I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again; it must need wither” - Theme of violence and revenge, 5.2

“And when I love thee not, chaos is come again” - Theme of chaos, 3.3

“I will chop her into masses” - theme of violence and revenge, 4.1

“If I were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy” - Theme of appearance v reality, 2.1

“A horned man’s a monster and a beast” - Themes of manhood and hour and tragic hero, symbol of animals, 4.1

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial” - Theme of manhood and honour, symbol of animals, 2.3

“You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar” - Theme of manhood and honour, 2.1

“She is abus’d, stol’n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines” - Theme of prejudice and racism, 1.3

“A practiser of arts inhibited and out of warrant” - Theme of prejudice and racism, 1.2

“An old black ram is tipping your white ewe” - Themes of prejudice and racism and villains role, symbol of animals, 1.1

“Ha! I like not that” - Theme of villains role, 3.3

“Mark me with what violence” - Themes of fate and inevitability and chaos, 2.1

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” - Themes of jealousy, tragic hero, chaos and fate and inevitability, 3.3

“Strangle her in the bed, even the bed she hath contaminated” - Themes of violence, revenge and womanhood and sexuality, 4.1

“I am not what I am” - Themes of role of villain and appearance v reality, 1.1

“I do perceive here a divided duty” - Theme of womanhood and sexuality, 1.3

“What wouldst thou write of me, if thou dost praise me?” - Theme of jealousy, 2.1

“Prather shroud me in one of those same sheets” - Theme of fate and inevitability, 4.3