Julius Caesar : Quotations

Quotations

Quotes

“Beware the Ides of March.” (Soothsayer, Act 1, Scene 2, Foreshadowing) ✪✪✪

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” (Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2, Philosophy/Theme) ✪✪✪

“Et tu, Brute?” (Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1, Tragic Irony) ✪✪✪

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” (Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2, Rhetoric/Irony) ✪✪✪

“This was the noblest Roman of them all.” (Mark Antony, Act 5, Scene 5, Tribute) ✪✪✪

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” (Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2, Theme: Courage and Fate) ✪✪✪

“Men at some time are masters of their fates.” (Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2, Theme: Free Will) ✪✪

“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.” (Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 1, Theme: Revenge/Chaos) ✪✪✪

“Caesar, thou art reveng’d,

Even with the sword that kill’d thee.” (Cassius, Act 5, Scene 3, Theme: Irony/Fate) ✪✪

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” (Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2, Theme: Irony/Public Speech) ✪✪✪

“Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights.” (Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2, Theme: Suspicion & Power) ✪✪

“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” (Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2, Theme: Foreshadowing) ✪✪✪

“It was Greek to me.” (Casca, Act 1, Scene 2, Idiom / Irony) ✪

“Caesar, now be still: 

I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.” (Brutus, Act 5, Scene 5, Theme: Honour and Tragedy) ✪✪✪

“O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! 

Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords 

In our own proper entrails.” (Brutus, Act 5, Scene 3, Theme: Fate and Guilt) ✪✪✪