Othello Quotes

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

~ William Shakespeare

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.

~ Carew Papritz

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

I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words.

~ William Shakespeare

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

~ William Shakespeare

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

~ Helen Gardner

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

~ William Shakespeare

Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death,The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were ’t good?I think she stirs again—No. What’s best to do?If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife—My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!Methinks it should be now a huge eclipseOf sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globeShould yawn at alteration.

~ William Shakespeare

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

~ Frank O'hara