Julius Cæsar Quotes Flashcards
Beware the Ides of March.
Soothsayer
I was born as free as Caesar; so were you.
Cassius
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.
Cassius
Let me have men about me that are fat, / Sleek-headed men, such as sleep o’nights. / Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. / He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.
Caesar
Our course will seem to bloody, Caius Cassius, / To cut the head off and then hack the limbs…For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. / Let’s be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
Brutus
Cowards die many times before their deaths, / the valiant never tastes of death but once.
Caesar
Alas, my lord, / Your wisdom is consumed in confidence. / Do not go forth today. Call it my fear / That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
Calphurnia
This dream is all amiss interpreted; / It was a vision fair and fortunate.
Decius
I have a man’s mind but a woman’s might.
Portia
But I am constant as the North Star….
Caesar
Speak hands for me!
Casca
Et tu, Bruté.
Caesar
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Brutus
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Antony
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honorable man.
Antony
This was the unkindest cut of all.
Antony
Strike as you did at Caesar, because I know, / When you hated him worst, you loved him better than you ever loved Cassius.
Cassius
In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words; / Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart, / Crying ‘Long live! Hail, Caesar!’
Antony
Caesar, now be still; / I killed not thee with half so good a will.
Brutus
This was the noblest Roman of them all, / All the conspirators save only he, / Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
Antony
