...reputation! lago As I am an honest man, I thought you had received 250 some bodily wound: there is more of sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an...oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man! There are ways...

...reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial. Cassio — Othello lI.iii Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: Iago — Othello II. Hi Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls:...

...bestial' (2.3.262-4), lago answers devastatingly, 'As I am an honest man, I had thought you had receiv'd some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation' (11.266-8). Cassio's self-image combines an outer physical shell with a spiritual core, much like an...

...of myself, and what remains is bestial" (Othello, 2.3.262-64). Ironically, lago's dismissive claim - "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving" (lines 268-70)is closer to the Christian view. (In The House of Fame Chaucer suggests the adventitious...

...those who do not deserve her, is the Contempt of those that do. Shakespear says in his Othello, That Reputation is an idle and most false Imposition, oft got without Merit, and lost without deserving.2 Human Life every where abounds with Instances of the Justness of this Observation; nothing...

...remains is bestial. My reputation, lago, my reputation! IAGO As I am an honest man, I thought you had 285 received some bodily wound. There is more sense in...oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, 290 man, there are...

...remains is bestial. My reputation, lago, my reputation! IAGO As I am an honest man, I had thought you had received some bodily wound - there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is 245 an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. You have...

...94(1. lago is wearing the mask of seeming virtue when he replies : As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense...oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. (II.iii.266-7i) We cannot...

...symmetry and specious logic ('oft' is the key-word), to dissuade the dupe from his stagnant course: Reputation is an idle, and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. Othello's punishment of Cassio is, he says, more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat...

...their souls. But to Cassio, who thinks of reputation as the immortal part of himself, he declares that 'Reputation is an idle and most false imposition;...oft got without merit, and lost without deserving'. Brabantio thinks his reputation is irreparably tarnished by his daughter's elopement. Several of Shakespeare's...