Quotes Flashcards
“Let me have men that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.”
Caesar
“This was the noblest Roman of them all,
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.”
Antony
“But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Let me work;
For I can give his humor the true bent,
And I will bring him to the Capitol.”
Decius
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
Caesar
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Antony
“He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.”
Antony
“As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate,
I rejoice at it, as he was valiant, I honor him;
but as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
Brutus
“O name him not; let us not break with him,
For he will never follow anything
That other men begin.”
Brutus
“With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.”
Antony
“O ye gods! Render me worthy of this noble wife.”
Brutus
“If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
Brutus
“Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!”
Cinna (conspirator)
“Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
‘Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’”
Caesar
“Beware, the Ides of March.”
Soothsayer
“Caesar now be still.
I killed not thee with half so good a will.”
Brutus
