English JC ACT 1 quotes

flavious

“These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing/ Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,/ Who else would soar above the view of men/ And keep us all in servile fearfulness.” (1.1.73-76)

Cassius

“I have heard/ Where many of the best respect in Rome/ (Except immortal Caesar), speaking of Brutus,/ And groaning underneath this age’s yolk,/ Have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes.” (1.2.58-62)

Cassius

“And this man/ Is now become a god, and Cassius is/ A wretched creature, and must bend his body/ If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.” (1.2. 115-118)

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.” (1.2.139-141)

Cassius

“And after this, let Caesar seat him sure;/ For we will shake him, or worse days endure.” (1.2.321-322)

Cicero

“But men may construe things after their fashion,/ Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” (1.3.34-35)

Cassius

“That heaven hath infused them with these spirits/ To make them instruments of fear and warning/ Unto some monstrous state.” (1.3.69-71)

Casca

“So every bondman in his own hand bears/ The power to cancel his captivity.” (1.3.101-102)

Casca

“O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts;/ And that which would appear offense in us, / His countenance, like richest alchemy,/ Will change to virtue and to worthiness.” (1.3.157-160)