William Shakespeare, Othello Quotes

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

For she had eyes and chose me.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Men should be what they seem.

O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.

I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your 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.

...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.