Othello Quotes

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is topping your white ewe.

– William Shakespeare

Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.
Yet, for necessity of present life,
I must show out a flag and sign of love,
Which is indeed but sign.

– William Shakespeare

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.

– William Shakespeare

Rude am I in my speech,
And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

– William Shakespeare

Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the conscience
To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service.

– William Shakespeare

I will a round unvarnished tale deliver
Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,
What conjuration and what mighty magic,
For such proceeding I am charged withal,
I won his daughter.

– William Shakespeare

My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange,
‘Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful.

– William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

– William Shakespeare

And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders.

– William Shakespeare

Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

– William Shakespeare

I do perceive here a divided duty.

– William Shakespeare

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth ‘scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels’ history.

– William Shakespeare

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

– William Shakespeare

But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.

– William Shakespeare

The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.

– William Shakespeare

Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.
For making him egregiously an ass
And practising upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness.

– William Shakespeare

Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
From her propriety.

– William Shakespeare

O! I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

– William Shakespeare

If it were now to die,
‘Twere now to be most happy.

– William Shakespeare

O! thereby hangs a tale.

– William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience!

– William Shakespeare

I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

– William Shakespeare

A slipper and subtle knave.

– William Shakespeare

Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,
Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.

– William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

– William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

– William Shakespeare