Quotes from Othello

About Othello

This tragedy is from 1604 - there was a period where Shakespeare was churning out the tragedies at the rate of one a year in this productive period which is quite impressive really.

This one has 26 characters but just the fifteen scenes that are spread across a total of five acts.

Author / Creator: William Shakespeare

Othello Quotations

It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant
general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,
importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,
every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,
some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and
revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these
beneficial news, it is the celebration of his
nuptial

Said by: Herald
Reference information: Act II Scene II

If that the Turkish fleet
Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:
It is impossible they bear it out.

Said by: Montano
Reference information: Act II Scene I

Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,
That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
Give him defence against the elements,
For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea

Said by: Cassio
Reference information: Act II Scene I

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