William Shakespeare, Othello
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"For she had eyes and chose me."
"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
"I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself."
"Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am"
"As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. 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."
"Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?"
"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 nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
"The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief."
"...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words..."
"My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself."
"Men should be what they seem."
"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;But riches fineless is as poor as winterTo him that ever fears he shall be poor;–Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defendFrom jealousy!"
"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
"I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words."
"For your sake, jewel,I am glad at soul I have no other child;For thy escape would teach me tyranny,To hang clogs on them."
"Not I; I must be found;My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,Shall manifest me rightly."
"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs."
"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)"
"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on."
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!(Act 3, scene 3, 165–171)"
"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
"O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!"
"My story being done,She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:She swore,––in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange;'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'dThat heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her,I should but teach him how to tell my story.And that would woo her."
"DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon?"