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- O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
 
- Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
 
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
 
- Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, sc. 3
 
- 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, Act III, sc. 3
 
- O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, sc. 3
 
- Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 2
 
- It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
 
- Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well. 
 - William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, sc. 2
 
- Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. 
 - William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act II, sc. 3
 
- The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. 
 - William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, sc. I
 
- They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. 
 - William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, sc. 1
 
- To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe. 
 - William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. 
 - William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, sc. 4
 
- I wasted time and now doth time waste me. 
 - William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
 
 
	
 
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