| Flavius | “These growing fleathers plucked from Caesar’s wing wil make him fly an ordinary pitch” |
| Caesar | “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.” |
| Soothsayer | “Beware the ides of March.” |
| Cassius, about Caesar | “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus…” |
| Brutus | “I love the name of honor more than I fear death.” |
| 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.” |
| Caesar, about Cassius | “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.” |
| Casca | “…but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.” |
| Casca, about Brutus | “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.” |
| Brutus, about Caesar | “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.” |
| Caesar | “Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.” |
| Artemidorus | “Security gives way to conspiracy.” |
| Portia | “…how weak a thing the heart of a woman is.” |
| Metellus | “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?” |
| Caesar | “I am constant as the Northern Star.” |
| Caesar | “Et tu, Brute. Then fall Caesar!” |
| Casca | “Why, he that cuts of twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.” |
| Brutus | “And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood up to our elbows, and besmear our swords.” |
| Antony | “…that I may produce his body to the marketplace.” |
| Brutus, about Antony | “To you our swords have leaden points.” |
| 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.” |
| Brutus | “Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more.” |
| Brutus | “Why I that did love Caesar when I struck him…” |
| Antony | “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” |
| 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?” |
| All Plebians | “Peace ho! Hear Antony, most noble Antony.” |
| 4th Plebian, about Cinna the Poet | “Tear him for his bad verses! Tear him for his bad verses!” |
| Antony, about Lepidus | “This is a slight unmeritable man, meet to be sent on errands.” |
| Cassius | “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.” |
| Brutus, about Portia | “Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.” |
| Brutus | “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.” |
| Caesar’s ghost | “…thou shalt see me at Philippi” |
| Cassius | “Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that killed thee.” |
| Brutus | “O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!” |
| Brutus | “Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will.” |
| Antony, about Brutus | “This was the noblest Roman of them all.” |
Julius Caesar Quote Identification
April 12, 2020