1. “As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily sound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.” ― Othello
2. “But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am.” ― Othello
3. “I can again thy former light restore, should I repent me: but once put out thy light, thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat that can thy light relume.” ― Othello
4. “Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.” ― Othello
5. “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.” ― Othello
6. “Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.” ― Othello
7. “How poor are they that have no patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” – Othello
8. “There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” ― Othello
9. “Men should be what they seem.” ― Othello
10. “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.” ― Othello
11. “Rude am I in my speech, and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.” ― Othello
12. “This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.” ― Othello
13. “I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.” ― Othello
14. “If it were now to die, ‘twere now to be most happy, for I fear my soul hath her content so absolute that no other comfort, like to this succeeds in unknown fate.” ― Othello
15. “No, my heart is turn’d to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand.” ― Othello
16. “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” ― Othello
17. “Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos come again.” ― Othello
18. “Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.” ― Othello
19. “There is magic in the web.” ― Othello
20. “When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.” ― Othello
21. “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.” ― Othello
22. “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” ― Othello
23. “Have not we affections and desires for sport, and fraility, as men have?” – Othello
