Julius Ceasar Quotes Flashcards
“You blocks, You stones, you worse Than senseless things! O you hard hearths, you cruel men of Rome…”
Murellus
What means the shouting? I do fear, the people choose Caesar for their king.”
Brutus
No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I, and honest Caska, we have the falling sickness”
Cassius
“For who so firm that cannot be seduced”
Cassius
“Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried ‘Alas, good soul!’ And forgave him with all their hearts;…if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less”
Caska
“Now could I name to thee a man most like this dreadful night, that thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars as doth a lion in the Capitol?”
Cassius
“He is a dreamer: let us leave him. Pass!”
Caesar
“…He reads much; he is a great observer, and he looks quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays…He hears no music…and therefore very dangerous”
Caesar.
“Truly sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph”
The cobbler
“For let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honor more than I fear death”
Brutus
Has a letter to delive in act 2
Artemidorus
Gave a nightmare a positive interpretation -2
Decius
Claims to be fearless but is still superstitious -2
Caesar
Reported to Brutus that men were in disguise at the gate -2
Lucius
Had a dream a statue spouting blood
Calphurnia
What’s this? Awake at this early hour! -2
Antony
Swayed by false letters
Brutus
Proved constancy with a voluntary wound
Portia
Will offer a verbal warning on the road to the capitol
Soothsayer
Suggested an oath be sworn, overruled
Cassius
Who does Brutus refuse to let join the conspiracy
Cicero
According to Brutus, who is but a limb of Ceasar and will be harmless once ceasar is deaD?
Antony
Who expected equality in marriage?
Portia and Brutus
“And therefore think him as a serpents egg
Which hatched would as his kind grow michevious
And kill him in his shell
Brutus
“…And you know his means,
If he improve them, may stretch so far
As to annoy us all; which to prevent
Let Antony and Caesar fall together”
Cassius
“Lets carve him as a dish fit for the Gpods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds”
Brutus
“Let me work
For I can give his humor the true bent
And I will bring him to the capitol”
Decius
"”Dwelll I but in the suburbs
of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
{I am} Brutus harlot, not his wife
Portia
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes
Calphurnia
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once”
Caesar
“If thou read this, O Casar, thou mayest live; if not, the Fates with traitors must contrive”
Artemidorus
” O constancy, be strong upon my side,
set a huge mountain ‘tween my heart and tongu
I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might
Portia
“That I have lady, if it will please Casar
To be so good o Ceasar as to hear me
I shall beseech him to befriend himself
Soothsayer
“There is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands. It is fit,
The threefold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it
Antony
“Let me tell you, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm…
Brutus
“There is no longer terror in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind
Which I respect not”
Brutus
“For shame, you generals! What do you mean?
LOve, and be friends, as two such men should be;
For I have seen more years, I’m sure, than ye”
A poet
“THy evil spirit, Brutus”
Ghost of Ceasar
“Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark.
The storm is up and all is on the hazard”
Cassius
“Lets reason with the worst that may befall
If we do lose this battle, then is this
The very last time we shall speak together
What are you then determined to do
Cassius
“Let them set on at once; for I percieve
But could demeanor in Octavio’s wing
And sudden push gives them the overthrow
Ride, ride Mesala; let them all come down
Brutus
“This dat I breathed first, time is come round,
And where i did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass
Cassius
“Ceasar, thou art revenges,
Even with the sword that killed thee
Cassius
“Why didn’t thou send me forth, brave CAssius?
Did I not meet thy friends, and did they not
PUt on my brows this wreath of victory,
And bid me give it to thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
Alas, thou hast misconstrued everything
Titinius
“O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
In our own proper entrails”
Brutus
“And I am Marcus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I!
Brutus, my country;s friend! Know me for Brutus!”
Lucillius
“Caesar, now be still;
I killed not thee with half so good a will”
Brutus
“HIs life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed up in him that Nature might stand up
And say to the world, “This was a man!”
Antony
