Good vs Evil Quotes

1)Act 1 Scene 1 Line 88-93, Iago to Brabantio : “Your heart is burst; you have lost half of your soul; Even now, now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; awake the snorting citizens with the bell, or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.”

- Iago is convincing Brabantio that Othello is with his daughter Desdemona, and to get up and go do something about it, to stop it.

2)Act 5 scene 2 Line 131-132, Emilia to Othello : "O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil!"

-Emilia just figured out what was going on and why Othello killed Desdemona even though she knows the real truth, she is telling Othello he is wrong and a devil for doing what he did for no real reason.

3)Act 1 scene 3 Line 140, Othello to Duke " it was my hint to speak, such as the process and of the cannibals that eat each other eat, the anthropophagi; and men who's heads grow beneath their shoulders

-Othello is explaining his relationship with Desdemona and how they fell in love and why she loves him.

4)Act 1 Scene 3 Line 340, Iago to Rodrigo “I have’t. It is engener’d. Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light”

- Iago is disusing his plan to fool everybody and to convince Othello by using lies.

5) Act 2 Scene 3 Line 326, Iago “How am I then a villain to counsel Cassio to this parallel course Directly to his good? Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows as I do now.”

- Iago is stating that him telling Cassio what is best for him is a good thing to do and there's nothing wrong with it.

6)Act 2 Scene 3 Line 336, Iago "And by how much she strives to do him good, she shall undo her credit with the moor. So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all”
- Iago is explaining how is plan is going to work and what is involved.
7) Act 4 Scene 2 Line 81, Desdemona “By heaven, You do me wrong”

-This quote is in the middle of an argument between Othello and Desdemona when Othello acuses her of being unfaithful to her.  He is accusing her of doing something bad/evil, when really she is being wrongly accused.  By saying “By heaven, You do me wrong” she is telling Othello that she is being wrongly accused, and heaven knows she is right.

8) Act 2 Scene 3 Line 336, Iago “And by how much she strives to do whom good, she shall undo her credit with the moor.  So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all” – Iago

Here, Iago is talking to himself about how bad he is, and how he will use Desdemona’s good behaviour against her.  He is saying he will theoretically be the one to make the net that traps them all in his scheme, while he walks freely.  

9)Act 5 Scene 2 Line 171, Emilia “Disprove this villain, if thou be’st a man.  He says thou told’st him that his wife was false.  I know thou didst not, thou’rt not such a villain.  Speak, for my heart is full.”

-Here, Emilia is denying that Iago ever told Othello that his wife Desdemona was being unfaithfull because the idea of that is just insane.  She is accusing Othello of being an animal - because he is too evil to be a man in her mind at this moment in time, before that theory is proven wrong by Iago.  To Emilia, Othello is the evil one at first, when really Iago is the bad one who started all of the confusion and imbalance of heaven and earth.  

10)Act 5 Scene 2 Line 286, Iago “I bleed, sir, but not kill’d” 

Iago has just been stabbed and is dying.  He says that he is bleeding, but not dead due to the fact that his evil lives on, and hinting towards darkness and evil winning over good.