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"Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war." |
Antony - Thinking of revenge contemplating Caesar's corpse |
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings." |
Cassius - Trying to convince Brutus to kill Caesar |
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"Beware the ides of March." |
Soothsayer |
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." |
Brutus, talking about fighting at Phillipi |
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valliant never taste of death but once." |
Caesar - dismissing Calpurnia's fears |
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"Speak hands for me!" |
Casca - said this as he stabbed Caesar |
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"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." |
Calpurnia - begging Caesar not to go out on the ides of March |
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"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous." |
Caesar - speaking to Marc Anthony |
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." |
Anthony's eulogy of Caesar |
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"Not that I lov'd Caesar less, but that I lov'd Rome more." |
Brutus - trying to explain to the angry men why he assassinated Caesar |
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"Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt." |
Marc Antony |
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"Thou art the ruins of the noblest man, That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!" |
Marc Antony |
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"Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar!" |
Julius Caesar |
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I shall remember, When Caesar says, "Do this", it is performed." |
Antony |
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"O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." |
Antony |
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"But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered." |
Decius |
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"This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him." |
Antony |
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"I know where I will wear this dagger then; Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius." |
Cassius |
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"...I do fear the people choose Caesar for their King." |
Brutus |
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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." |
Antony |
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"Even for that our love old, I prithee Hold thou my sword-hilts whilst I run on it." |
Brutus |
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"He was my friend, faithful and just to me. But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man." |
Antony |
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"Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." |
Cassius |
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"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds." |
Brutus speaking of Caesar |
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And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell." |
Brutus |
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"I shall remember. When Caesar says "Do this," it is performed." |
Antonius |
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"I am not gamesome. I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in Antony. Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires. I'll leave you." |
Brutus |
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"Cassius, Be not deceived. If I have veiled my look, I turn the trouble of my countenance Merely upon myself." |
Brutus |
