Desdemona's Quotes

#1. 'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

Michelle Dockery

#2. Yippie ki-yay and all that shit"

- Desdemona Fox

Jonathan Maberry

#3. Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Johnny Cash

#5. Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain.

William Shakespeare

#6. I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

Horace

#8. OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!

William Shakespeare

#9. Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. Willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona
I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing

Frank O'Hara

#11. I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

William Shakespeare

#12. I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

Shari Sebbens

#13. Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. I love you, Desdemona."
"I know," she whispered. "You don't have to say the words."
He smiled slowly. "Trust me, you're going to hear them every day for the rest of our lives.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#15. It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

Arthur Koestler

#17. Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?'
'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Agatha Christie

#19. You are my country, Desdemona ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Connie Brockway

#20. We become in part what our senses take in.

Eknath Easwaran

#21. Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

Adam Leith Gollner

#22. I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

William Shakespeare

#23. Nobody ever took my picture. They didn't want to. Or I wouldn't let them.
You were the only exception.

David Levithan

#24. There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.

Franny Billingsley

#25. scat to rock steady

Robert A. Roskind

#26. Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#27. God me such uses send,
Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend.

William Shakespeare

#28. An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Sophie Scholl