Famous Lines: Othello

How poor are they that have not patience.
—Iago 2.3.370

But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed
— Iago 3.3.159–61

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
— Cassio 2.4.262–64

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
— Iago 2.4.268–70

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
— Cassio 2.4.281–83

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
— Iago 1.1.64–65

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
— Iago 3.3165–67

I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; 
And on the proof, there is no more but this,— 
Away at once with love or jealousy!
— Othello 3.3190–92

He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stol’n,
Let him not know’t, and he is not robb’d at all.
— Othello 3.3.342–43

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.
— Othello 5.2.342–44

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