JCaesar Important Quotes

Question 0

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/ Like a colossus

Answer 0

Cassius bitterly comments to Brutus about Caesar’s growing power and influence

Question 1

Beware the ides of March

Answer 1

The Soothsayer delivers his famous warning to Caesar

Question 2

The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

but within ourselves, that we are the underlings

Answer 2

Cassius tells Brutus that rise of Caesar is their fault, because they are not doing anything to stop it

Question 3

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Answer 3

Caesar’s suspicious comment

Question 4

it was Greek to me

Answer 4

Casca’s saracastic comment about a speech by Cicero

Question 5

Between the acting of a dreadful thing,
and the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream

Answer 5

Having decided that Caesar must die, Brutus reflects on how difficult it is to put his decision into action.

Question 6

Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar
And in the spirit of men there is no blood:
O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit
come by seize
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas
Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,
Let’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:

Answer 6

Brutus, explaining why Antony need not be killed, too, expresses his unrealistic idealism.

Question 7

Think you I am no stronger than my sex…?

Answer 7

Portia assures Brutus that she can be trusted with his secrets

Question 8

When beggars die, there are no comets seen,

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Answer 8

Calpurnia tries to persuade Caesar to give credence to the omens and stay away from the Senate on the ides of March

Question 9

Cowards die many times before their deaths,

the valiant never taste of death but once

Answer 9

Caesar tells Calphurina that he is not afraid of death

Question 10

I am constant as the northern star

Answer 10

Caesar tells Cassius that he cannot be moved by humble pleadings.

Question 11

Et tu, Brute?

Answer 11

Seeing his friend among the assassins, Caesar exclaims, “And you, Brutus?”

Question 12

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of Earth.

Answer 12

Antony apologizes to Caesar’s body for shaking hands with Caesar’s killers

Question 13

Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war

Answer 13

Antony predicts the revenge of Caesar’s spirit upon the conspirators.

Question 14

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more

Answer 14

Brutus explains to the Roman crowd his reason for killing Caesar

Question 15

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears

I come to bury Caesar not to praise him

Answer 15

Antony begins his famous speech over Caesar’s body by calming the crowd

Question 16

But Brutus says he was ambitious,

and Brutus is an honorable man

Answer 16

Antony, in a backhanded way, casts doubt on the honor of Brutus

Question 17

This was the most unkindest cut of all

Answer 17

Antony, showing the crowd Caesar’s mantle, points out where Brutus stabbed Caesar.

Question 18

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Answer 18

Brutus tells Cassius that when the time is ripe, action must be taken.

Question 19

This was the noblest Roman of them all

Answer 19

Antony’s praise of dead Brutus

Question 20

“But this same day

Must end the work the ides of March begun.”

Answer 20

Brutus, On the ides of March the conspirators killed Julius Caesar. Now they are hoping to defeat Mark Antony, Octavius, and their army. When Brutus says this, he is basically committing his armies to one final battle at Phillipi.