English Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1 quotes
Murellus-“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”
“And do you now street flowers in his way, that comes In triumph over Pompey’s blood?”
Flavius-“These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing, will make him fly an ordinary pitch, who else would soar above the view of men, and keep us all in servile fearfulness.”
Act 1 Scene 2
Antony-“When Caesar says “Do this” it is performed.”
Cassius- “that you have no mirrors as will turn your hidden worthiness into your eye…” “Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that ‘Caesar’? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?” “A man no mightier than thyself or me, in personal action, yet prodigious grown.”
Act 2 Scene 1
Brutus-“What need we spur but our own cause to prick us redress?”
Decius- “But when I tell him he hates flatterers, he says he does, being then most flattered”
Act 2 Scene 2
Caesar- “What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?” “Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he: We are two lions littered in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.”
Act 3 Scene 1
Caesar- “But I am as constant as the northern star…”
Antony- “O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”
Act 3 Scene 2
“This Caesar was a tyrant” “T’were best he spoke no harm of Brutus here”, “O noble Caesar!” We’ll burn the house of Brutus”
Antony- “Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt!”
Act 3 Scene 3
Plebian- “Tear him for his bad verses…” “It is no matter, his name’s Cinna”
Act 4 Scene 1
“This is a slight, unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands”
Act 4 Scene 2
Brutus- “Judge me, you gods! Wrong I mine enemies? And if not so, how should I wrong a brother?”.
Act 4 Scene 3
Brutus- “Did not great Julius bleed for justice’s sake?”
Cassius- “Urge me no more, I shall forget myself. Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further!”
Act 5 Scene 3
Cassius- “Caesar, thou art revenged even with the sword that killed thee.”
Act 5 Scene 4
Lucilius- “I dare assure thee that no enemy shall ever take alive the noble Brutus”
Act 5 Scene 5
Brutus- “Caesar, now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will.”
Strato- “For Brutus only overcame himself, and no man hath honour by his death.”
Antony- “This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, did that they did in envy of great Caesar.”
