Quotes JC Flashcards
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.”
Brutus
“Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Now hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds.”
Brutus
“I Have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh…”
Portia
“Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar
“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”
Caesar
“Stoop, Romans, stoop,
And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood
Up to the elbows and besmear our swords.”
Brutus
“…How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty theme be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown?”
Cassius
“O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?
Are all the conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure?”
Antony
“…Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Had you rather Caesar were living , and die all slaves, than
That Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?”
Brutus
- He feels obliged to kill Caesar )even though he knows it may be wrong) because it’s right for Rome.
“This was the most unkindest cut of all…”
Speaker: Antony
- Brutus stabbed Caesar