You really think you’ll be able to distinguish between Iago’s plausible lies and Desdemona’s desperate appeals without looking at your notes? Take the Othello Quotes Quiz and get stuck into the opening question and show you know who really said those fatal words.
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Othello Quotes Quiz Questions
- “O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
- “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!”
- “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.”
- “I am not what I am.”
- “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee.”
- “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
- “Men should be what they seem.”
- “I saw Othello’s visage in his mind.”
- “The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so.”
- “I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”
- “I nothing but to please his fantasy.”
- “My life upon her faith.”
- “Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.”
- “Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.”
- “The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief.”
- “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.”
- “His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love.”
- “This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.”
- “Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.”
- “Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore; give me the ocular proof.”
- “Demand me nothing: what you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.”
- “I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest.”
- “My noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness.”
- “O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself.”
- “O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.”
- “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men.”
- “This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite.”
- “Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”
- “Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, all, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.”
- “I will turn her virtue into pitch and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.”