Julius Caesar Quote Identification

"These growing fleathers plucked from Caesar's wing wil make him fly an ordinary pitch"

Flavius

"Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, to touch Calphurnia; for our elders say, the barren, touched in this holy chase, shake off their sterile curse."

Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

Soothsayer

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves."

Cassius, about Caesar

"I love the name of honor more than I fear death."

Brutus

"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."

Cassius

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

Caesar, about Cassius

"…but for mine own part, it was Greek to me."

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 worthiness."

Casca, about Brutus

"Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully. Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds."

Brutus, about Caesar

"Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once."

Caesar

"Security gives way to conspiracy."

Artemidorus

"…how weak a thing the heart of a woman is."

Portia

"Is there no voice more worthy than my own, to sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear for the repealing of my banished brother?"

Metellus

"I am constant as the Northern Star."

Caesar

"Et tu, Brute. Then fall Caesar!"

Caesar

"Why, he that cuts of twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death."

Casca

"And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood up to our elbows, and besmear our swords."

Brutus

"…that I may produce his body to the marketplace."

Antony

"To you our swords have leaden points."

Brutus, about Antony

"O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers."

Antony

"Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood."

Antony

"And Caesar's spirit…shall…cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

Antony

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more."

Brutus

"Why I that did love Caesar when I struck him…"

Brutus

"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 goods is oft interred with their bones"

Antony

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

Antony

"This was the most unkindest cut of all."

Antony

"Tis good you know not that you are heirs; for if you should, O what would come of it?"

Antony

"Peace ho! Hear Antony, most noble Antony."

All Plebians

"Tear him for his bad verses! Tear him for his bad verses!"

4th Plebian, about Cinna the Poet

"This is a slight unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands."

Antony, about Lepidus

"I an itching palm?"

Cassius

"I said an elder soldier, not a better."

Cassius

"A friend should bear a friend's infirmaties…a friendly eye could never see such faults."

Cassius

"Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine."

Brutus, about Portia

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…On such a sea we are now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."

Brutus

"…thou shalt see me at Philippi"

Caesar's ghost

"Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that killed thee."

Cassius

"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet; Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords In our own proper entrails."

Brutus

"Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will."

Brutus

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

Antony, about Brutus

“Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed That he is grown so great?”

Cassius

“Let me have men about me that are fat…”

Caesar

“Danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible.

Caesar

“O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!”

Antony

“Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause…”

Brutus

“Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times“

Antony

“O mighty Caesar, dost thou lie so low?are thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils Shrunk to this little measure?

Antony

“Know: Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause Will he be satisfied.”

Caesar