Othello (1995)

Laurence Fishburne: Othello

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Quotes 

• Othello : Put out the light - and then - put out the light

• Othello : Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.

• Othello : [to Cassio, after having killed his wife Desdemonda]  Will you, I pray, demand this demi-devil why he hath thus ensnared my mind and body?

  Iago : Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time on I never will speak word.

• Othello : Arise black vengeance from thy hollow cell. Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate. Now by yond marble heaven, in the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words.

• Othello : I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.