Quotes About Desdemona

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

- Desdemona Fox

Jonathan Maberry

#2. '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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Connie Brockway

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

Agatha Christie

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Shari Sebbens

#11. 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

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. if a lie is repeated often enough, people will begin to believe it.

Jimmy Moore

#19. The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

Rita Zahara

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

William Shakespeare

#21. I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

#22. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. Always feel hungry for a daring life.

Debasish Mridha

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

William Shakespeare

#25. The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

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

William Shakespeare

#27. Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Tryon Edwards

#28. Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Gautama Buddha

#29. I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

Bob Newhart

#30. True religion is that which does not let you stumble.

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

Dan Millman

#32. Of all the most devastating sounds in the universe, silence is the most powerful.

Gerard De Marigny

#33. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Rabindranath Tagore

#34. And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Lynn Redgrave

#35. For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Karl Liebknecht