Who steals my purse steals trash

It is one of Shakespeare’s great ironies that he entrusts this often-quoted statement to the lying, twisted, immoral Iago. “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, […]