Julius Caesar

Famous quotes

• Beware the Ides of March.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context

• 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.

  Act I, scene ii.In context

  • Responsibility

• Let me have men about me that are fat,
  Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights:
  Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
  He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by CaesarIn context

  • Character
  • Thinking

• Such men as he be never at heart’s ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.

  Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 208.In context

  • Envy

• But those that understood him smil’d at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.

  Act I, Scene II, spoken by CascaIn context

  • Knowledge
  • Talking

• Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

  Act II, scene ii.In context

  • Courage

• But I am constant as the northern star,
  Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
  There is no fellow in the firmament.

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by CaesarIn context

  • Character

• Et tu, Brute?⁠—Then fall, Caesar!

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by CaesarIn context

  • Enemies
  • Friendship

• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In States unborn, and accents yet unknown!

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by CassiusIn context

  • Acting
  • History

• O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
  That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.

  Act III, Scene I, spoken by AntonyIn context

  • Life & Death

• Cry ‘Havoc!,’ and let slip the dogs of war.

  Act III, scene i.In context

  • War & Peace

• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
  The evil that men do lives after them,
  The good is oft interred with their bones;
  So let it be with Caesar.

  Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context

  • Good & Evil
  • Life & Death

• O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
  And men have lost their reason.

  Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context

  • Thinking

• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

  Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context

  • Emotion

• There 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 in miseries.
  On such a full sea are we now afloat,
  And we must take the current when it serves,
  Or lose our ventures.

  Act IV, Scene III, spoken by BrutusIn context

  • Decisions
  • Luck

• His life was gentle, and the elements
  So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up
  And say to all the world, “This was a man!”

  Act V, Scene V, spoken by AntonyIn context

  • Character
  • Virtue

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