Othello Quotes

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows”
― William Shakespeare

“You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator!”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice.

On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!”
― William Shakespeare, Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam

“Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.”
― Shakespeare, William

“Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
― William Shakespeare

“Not all suicides are suicides, some are murders!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Love he hates, hatred he loves!

Iago, the Mephistopheles!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.
Even then this forkèd plague is fated to us
When we do quicken.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Othello, Ophelia and Timon have not committed suicide. Iago, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and the society respectively drive them mad and ultimately murder them by using ‘words’ only!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The Outsider by Stewart Stafford

Pierce the veil of the marital bed,
And find the droning mosquito of infidelity there,
O how the heart and stomach sink,
And the fiery fever of rabid fury rises.

Dispel the interloper,
Turn him out,
Run him through,
But she is no longer wife in name or vision.

The choice of hers already made,
Only possible resentment at the unilateral revocation of it,
No, let them lie,
Leave them be.

Think, do no react, Incandescent Man
Their hand and natures now revealed,
Now shall we salt away their penance,
Karma shall be their judge.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Amen to that, sweet powers!”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Arise black vengeance, from thy hollow hell!”
― William Shakespeare

“She'd come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The English letter ‘O’ is similar to zero (0) in appearance. Iago’s [I am Ego = ‘I’ ‘a’m e‘go’] name starts with an egoistic ‘I’ and ends with an ‘O’ or zero. His ‘ego’ and envy lead him towards nothingness or zero! On the other hand, Othello’s name both starts and ends with ‘O’. It may be interpreted as- Othello has started his career from a ‘zero’, becomes successful, Iago’s deception makes him jealous or mad and he ultimately becomes a ‘zero’ by killing Desdemona and himself. However, Othello must not be called a ‘murderer’ because Iago has used Othello as a weapon to murder Desdemona and also led Othello towards death!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“With a little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio”
― William Shakespeare

“The ‘words’ have the power to kill! They are similar to destructive weapons such as, knives, pistols, bombs and so on.”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“The ‘words’ are so powerful that anyone can drive others mad by using them cunningly. If someone commits suicide after being so hurt by someone else’s words, then it does not remain ‘suicide’ and turns into a ‘murder’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“If anyone [like Lady Macbeth] kills himself/herself because of sins or inner guilts, it is suicide but if anyone [like Othello] kills himself/herself because of others’ injustice to him/her [victim of nepotism, conspiracy, jealousy, corruption, etc.], familial or social pressures and so on, then it is ‘murder’!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Çok adam öldürdüm savaşta ama
Vicdanım elvermez tasarlanmış bir cinayete.”
― William Shakespeare

“Who steals my purse, steals trash.”
― William Shaekspeare

“I should make very forges of my cheeks
That would to cinders burn up modesty
Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed?
Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,
The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
Is hushed within the hollow mine of earth
And will not hear ’t. What committed!
Impudent strumpet!”
― Shakespeare

“Nay, guiltiness
Will speak, though tongues were out of use.”
― Shakespeare

“The presence of the shield feats can also arise in some cases of pathological jealousy. Here, the dreaded anti-feat would be infidelity, understood as anti-feat when it destroys pride and social prestige. One of the shield feats that would appear is the awareness. Here, the logic would be "aware" of infidelity operating as a consolation or compensation that serves to cushion the blow to the pride that infidelity brings. Therefore, this shield feat of awareness is the belief that infidelity has already occurred”
― Martín Ross, THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.

“Şöyle ya da böyle olmak elbette elimizde. Bedenimiz bahçemizdir, irademiz de bahçıvanı, ister ısırgan dikersin, ister kekik, ister hıyar yetiştirir, kabak ekersin, bahçeni ya tek bir bitkiye ayırabilirsin ya da bir sürü çiçekle doldurabilirsin, yeter ki sen iste! Bahçenin kısır kalması da elinde, verimli, bakımlı olması da. Bunların hepsini yapmak irademize bakar. Neyse ki duygularımız mantığımızla dengelenmiş.”
― William Shakespeare

“Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,

All, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.”
― William Shakespeare

“They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.
“And then they blame us for their indigestion.”
—Emilia, #Othello #onmen”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name