Julius Caesar 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) ✪✪✪
“Men at some time are masters of their fates.” (Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2, Theme: Free Will) ✪✪“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) ✪✪✪
Even with the sword that kill’d thee.” (Cassius, Act 5, Scene 3, Theme: Irony/Fate) ✪✪“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war.” (Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 1, Theme: Revenge/Chaos) ✪✪✪
“Caesar, thou art reveng’d,
“Let me have men about me that are fat,“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” (Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2, Theme: Irony/Public Speech) ✪✪✪
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) ✪✪✪