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  • IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

    Revenge   Beer   Gay  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148
  • You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

    Country   Egypt   Romance  
    Connie Brockway (2010). “As You Desire: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, p.117, Loveswept
  • An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

    White   Black   Rams  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88
  • Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

    Jealous   Justice   Speak  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338
  • If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

    Men   Honest   Wedlock  
    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.846, Wordsworth Editions
  • I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

    Anger   Desdemona   Fury  
    William Shakespeare (1757). “The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald”, p.314
  • I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

    Kissing   Way   Killing  
    1603-4 Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.368-9.
  • There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.

    Mind   Pearls   Fireworks  
    Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin
  • And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

    May   Defeat   Desdemona  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 159
  • So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

    1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.
  • Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

    Love   Pride   Doubt  
  • When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

    Devil   Firsts   Sin  
    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions
  • Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

    Love   Soul   Chaos  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90
  • The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

  • I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 122
  • We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

    Blood   Hands   White  
    Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK
  • Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

    Father   Grief   Poor  
    Shane Barnes, Aidan Coleman, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello”, p.193, Insight Publications
  • Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

    Space   Machines   Ships  
    1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.
  • Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

    Lying   Fate   Technology  
    1953 'The Boredomof Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.
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