Julius Caesar Quotations Flashcards
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome! Knew you not Pompey?”
Murellus
Cobbler/common people
Murellus upset that commons changed their allegiance so quickly to Caesar after Pompey
“Beware the Ides of March”
Soothsayer
To Caesar
Foreshadows what will happen to Caesar and Rome
“He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.”
Caesar
To Antony/Enterage
Shows Caesar’s arrogance because he won’t listen to the fortune teller
“For let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honor more than I fear death.”
Brutus
To Cassius
Shows Brutus’s good personality and priorities of wanting the general good of the people, then honor then death
“Men at some time are the masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Cassius
To Brutus
They can change their own fate, we’re in this position because we’re submissive to Caesar
“Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.”
Caesar
To Antony
Caesar doesn’t like Cassius, says he looks like he’s plotting all the time which could put him in danger
“But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.”
Casca
Cassius
Casca didn’t know what Cassius was talking about
“That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars, As doth the lion, in the Capitol; A man no mightier than thyself to me…”
Cassius
To Casca
Csssius saying that Caesar is going to be as wreckless as thunder and lightning and won’t be a good king
“Three parts of him is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter yields him ours.”
Cassius
To Casca
Cassius talking about Brutus, how he has three parts of him, saying that they need Brutus because he is loved by the common people
‘Those that with haste will make a mighty fire Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome. What rubbish and what offal, when it serves For the bare matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Caesar!”
Cassius
To Casca
Cassius saying that Rome is trash for following someone as unfit as Caesar
