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These remarks are from Coleridge's notes for a lecture of 1818; they contain a key phrase (in color) often used to talk about Iago's curious uncertainty about the reasons for his enmity to Othello.
Iago. Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus [1.3.317]
Iago's passionless character, all will in intellect; therefore a bold partizan here of a truth, but yet of a truth converted into falsehood by the absence of all the modifications by the frail nature of man. And the last sentiment --
. . . our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion --- [1.3.325-7]
There lies the Iagoism of how many! And the repetition, "Go make money! -- a pride in it, of an anticipated dupe, stronger than the love of lucre.
Iago.Thus do I ever make my fool my purse [1.3.365]
The triumph! Again, "put money," after the effect has been fully produced. The last speech, [Iago's soliloquy,] the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity -- how awful! In itself fiendish; while yet he was allowed to bear the divine image, too fiendish for his own steady view. A being next to devil, only not quite devil- and this Shakespeare has attempted -- executed -- without disgust, without scandal!
-- Shakespearean Criticism(1960), I: 44.
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