Othello Important Quotes Unpacked

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving”

“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.”

“Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a Monarch?”

“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.”

“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”

As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practice
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election;
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be beleed and calmed
By debitor and creditor. This counter-caster,
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be

I hate the Moor,
And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
'Has done my office. I know not if 't be true,
But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Will do as if for surety.