Julius Caesar-Quotes

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey?
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey?
Marullus
There is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;/Omitted, all the voyages of their life/Is bound in shallows and in miseries./On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves,/Or lose our ventures.
Brutus
Beware the Ides of March
Soothsayer
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves that we are underlings
Cassius
Set honor in one eye and death in th' other,/And I will look on both indifferently;/For let the gods so speed me, as I love/The name of honor more than I fear death.
Brutus
Let me have men about me that are fat,/Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o-nights./Yond Cassius has a mean and hungry look;/He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Caesar
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/Like a colossus; and we petty men/Walk under his huge legs, and peep about/To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Cassius
Three or four wenches, where I stood cried, "Alas, good soul!" and forgave him with all their hearts; but there's no heed to be taken them; if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have no done no less.
Casca
For mine own part, it was Greek to me.
Casca
Ohe he sits high in all the people's hearts/And that which appear offense in us/His countenance, like richest alchemy/Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
Casca
Think you no stronger than my sex being so husbanded?PortiaAnd for Antony, think not of him/For he can do no more than Caesar's arm/When Caesar's head if off.BrutusAlas, my lord; Your wisdom is consumed in confidence/Do not go forth today...CalpurniaAnd tell them that I will not come today;/Cannot is false; and that I dare not falser;/I will not come today.CaesarCowards die many times before their deaths;/The valient never taste of death but once.CaesarCaesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius/Come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna.ArtimadorusBut I am constant as the Northern Star/Of whose true-fixed and resting quality/There is no fellow in the firmament.CaesarEt tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar.CaesarStoop, Romans, stoop/And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood/Up to the elbows...BrutusO pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth./That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!AntonyAnd Caesar's spirit rangin for revenge/With Ate by his side come hot from Hell,/Shall in the confines with a monarch's voice/Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.AntonyAs Caesar loved me, I weep for him;/As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it;/As he was valient, I honor him;/But, as he was ambitious, I slew him.BrutusNot that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.BrutusFriends, Roman, Countrymen, lend me your ears.AntonyAmbition should be made of sterner stuff/But Brutus says he was ambitious/And Brutus is an honorable man.AntonyThou has described a hot friend cooling...When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony, there are no tricks in plain and simple faithBrutusThere is a tide in the affairs of men/Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;/Omitted, all the voyage of their life/Is bound in shallows and miseries./On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves,/Or lose our ventures.BrutusThou shalt see me at Philippi.CaesarLook, I draw a sword against conspirators...till Caesar's three-and-thirty wounds/Be well avengedOctaviusFarewell to you; and you; and you...Countrymen/My heart doth joy that yet in all my life/I found no man but he was true to me.BrutusCaesar, now be still;/I killed thee with has so good a will.BrutusThis was the noblest Roman of them all/...He only in a general honest thought/and common good to all, made one of them.AntonyYou may do your will; but he's a tried and valiant soldierOctaviusI fear, millions of mischiefsOctaviusI had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a RomanBrutusI said, an elder soldier, not a better. Did I say better?CassiusBe ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts: dash him to pieces!BrutusThe foremost man of all his worldBrutusA friend should bear his friend's infirmities, but Brutus makes mine greater than they areCassiusAll his faults observed, set in a note-book, learned and conned by rote to cast into my teeth.CassiusA horse is a creature I teach to fight...and in some taste Lepidus is but soAntonyWe at the height are ready to declineBrutusThe live-long dayMarullusHe is a dreamer; let us leave him: passCaesarI am not gamesome: I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in AntonyBrutusThan that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other menBrutusSet honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.BrutusThe choice and master spirits of this age.AntonyBut for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless.CassiusO judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.AntonyBut when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.Decius BrutusHe reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men.CaesarI only speak right on.AntonyThe last of all the Romans, fare thee well!BrutusWho is here so base that would be a bondman?BrutusIf you have tears, prepare to shed them now.AntonyWhat private griefs they have, alas, I know not.AntonyLet's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds;BrutusSee what a rent the envious Casca made.AntonyThink you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so father'd and so husbanded?PortiaHelp me, Cassius, or I sink!CassiusYou are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.BrutusHow many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknownCassiusThere was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.CassiusI come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt manAntonyBut yesterday the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.AntonyForever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.BrutusFierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.Calpurnia