Othello quotes on Villainy

Question 1

Emilia quote on Iago’s villany

Answer 1

‘I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devis’d this slander.’

Question 2

Emilia and Iago talking about villany

Answer 2

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.
IAGO. I told him what I thought, and told no more Than what he found himself was apt and true.

Question 3

Iago calling himself indirectly a villan

Answer 3

IAGO ‘I cry you mercy. Here’s Cassio hurt by villains.’

Question 4

Othello pointing out Iago’s villany

Answer 4

I do believe it, and I ask your pardon. Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil Why he hath thus ensnar’d my soul and body?

procedes with ‘IAGO: Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.’

Question 5

LODOVICO pointing out Iago as a villan:

Answer 5

LODOVICO. Now here’s another discontented paper, Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems, Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain, But that, belike, Iago in the interim Came in and satisfied him.

meaning: The letter Lodovico finds in Roderigo’s pocket is meant to expose Iago’s treachery. but Iago calms him down and manipulates him not to go through with it