Othello Quotes

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“But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.” (Othello Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, but seeming so, for my peculiar end: for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern, ’tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning’s pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have wakened death!”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and overbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:
But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.” (Othello Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Someone steals my good reputation from me, then he really does make me truly poor, and steals something that doesn’t even make him any richer.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“To be poor but content is actually to be quite rich. But you can have endless riches and still be as poor as anyone if you are always afraid of losing your riches.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.”
William Shakespeare
Othello

“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robbed that smiles steals something for the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
William Shakespeare
Othello