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Othello Quotations

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Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related: Iago Themes: Appearance vs. reality	"This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings." (258-60)
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Iago Related: Othello Themes: Appearance vs. reality, jealousy	"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." (165-7)
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Iago Themes: Appearance vs. reality	"I am your own forever." (480)
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related: Iago Themes: Appearance vs. reality, jealousy	"Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof." (360)
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related: Iago Themes: Appearance vs. reality, jealousy	"This honest creature doubtless Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds." (242-3)
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related: Iago Themes: Appearance vs. reality, jealousy	"By heaven, thou echo's me As if there were some monster in thy thought Too hideous to be shown." (106-8)
Location: Act 1, Scene 1 Speaker: Iago Related themes: Appearance vs. Reality	"When my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In complement extern, tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am."
Location: act 1, scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related themes: appearance vs. Reality, Manhood and Honour	Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used their dearest action in the tented field
Location: Act 1, Scene 1 Speaker: Iago Mentioned/Related: Michael Cassio, Othello Related themes: Jealousy, Manhood, Honor	"Preferment goes by letter and affection And not by old gradation, where each sound Stood heir to the first."
Location: Act 1, Scene 2 Speaker: Brabantio Mentioned/Related: Desdemona, Othello Related themes: Prejudice, Appearance vs. Reality, Jealousy, Womanhood, Sexuality	"Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her! For I'll refer me to all things of sense, If she in chains of magic were not bound,
Location: Act 1, Scene 2 Speaker: Brabantio Mentioned/Related: Desdemona, Othello Related themes: Prejudice, Appearance vs. Reality, Jealousy, Womanhood, Sexuality	Whether a maid, so tender, fair and happy, So opposite to marriage that she shunned The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, t'incur a general mock, Run ... to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou- to fear, not to delight
Location: Act 3, Scene 3 Speaker: Othello Mentioned/Related: Desdemona Related themes: Prejudice, Appearance vs. Reality, Jealousy	"Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declined Into the value of years- yet that's not much- She's gone."
Location: Act 4, Scene 1 Speaker: Iago Mentioned/Related: Desdemona Related themes: Appearance vs. Reality, Womanhood and Sexuality	"Her honor is an essence that's not seen; They have it very oft that have it not."
Location: Act 4, Scene 1 Speaker: Iago Mentioned/Related: Desdemona Related themes: Appearance vs. Reality, Womanhood and Sexuality, Jealousy, Manhood and Honor	"A horned man's a monster and a beast"
Location: Act 4, Scene 2 Speaker: Desdemona Mentioned
Location:Act 2, scene 3 Speaker:Michael Cassio Related themes:Appearance	"Notwithstanding, with my personal eye Will I look to't" (5-6)
Location:Act 2, scene 3 Speaker:Michael Cassio Related themes:Manhood and honor	"Reputation,reputation,reputation!O, I have lost my reputation!I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial"(251-3)
Location:Act, scene 3 Speaker:Iago Mentioned or related:Othello Related themes:Manhood and honor,Womanhood and sexuality	"Good name in man and woman,dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse steals trash;tis something,nothing; Twas mine,tis his,and has been slave to thousands.
Location:Act, scene 3 Speaker:Iago Mentioned or related:Othello Related themes:Manhood and honor,Womanhood and sexuality	But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed" (155-61)
Location:Act 3 , scene 3 Speaker: Othello Related themes: Jealousy , Manhood and Honor	"On horror's head horrors accumulate"
Location:Act 3 , scene 3 Speaker : Othello Mentioned or related:Iago Related themes:Appearance Vs.Reality	"Excellent wretch!Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again"
location: Act 2,scene 1 speaker: iago mentioned or related: desdemona related themes: appearance vs. reality	"her eye must be fed"(224)
location: act 2,scene 1 speaker : Desdemona mentioned or related : iago related themes :appearance vs. reality, womanhood and sexuality	"oh heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best"(143-4)
location: act2,scene 1 speaker :Desdemona related themes :appearance vs. reality	"i am not merry; but i do beguile the thing i am by seeming otherwise"(122-3)
location:act 2, scene 2 speaker :Iago mentioned or related : othello related themes :prejudice	"i'll make the moor thank me, love me and reward me for making him egregiously an ass"
location: act 2,scene 1 speaker :othello related themes : appearance vs. reality,manhood and honor,womanhood and sexuality	"if i were to die, twere now to be most happy,for i fear my soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort liketo this succeeds in unknown fate"
Location: Act 5, Scene 2 Speaker: Othello Related: Desdemona Themes: Jealousy, womanhood, sexuality	"Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light," (7-15)
Location: Act 5, Scene 2 Speaker: Othello Related: Desdemona Themes: Jealousy, womanhood, sexuality	"Put out the light, and then put out the light... Thou cuning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. When I have plucked thy rose, It must needs wither." (7-15)
Location: Act 5, Scene 2 Speaker: Othello Related: Desdemona Themes: Manhood and honour	"Had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite I'd not have sold her for it." (144-7)
Location: Act 5, Scene 2 Speaker: Iago	"Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word." (303-4)
location : Act 5 scene 2 speaker Othello related themes : prejudice , jelousy , Manhood&Honor	"Speak of me as I am . Nothing extenuate , nor set set down aught in malice . Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well ; of one not easily jealous , but , being wrought , Perplexed in the extreme;
Location : Act 5 scene 2 Speaker : Iago Mentioned or related : Othello Related themes : Appearance vs Realty	"I told him what I thought , and told no more Than what he found himself was apt and true