Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Julius Caesar.
BRUTUSWhat means this shouting? I do fear the peopleChoose Caesar for their king.CASSIUSAy, do you fear it?Then must I think you would not have it so.BRUTUSI would not, Cassius, yet I love him well...
FLAVThese growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wingWill make him fly an ordinary pitch,Who else would soar above the view of menAnd keep us all in servile fearfulness. (1.1.6)
CASSIUS Brutus, I do observe you now of late:I have not from your eyes that gentlenessAnd show of love as I was wont to have:You bear too stubborn and too strange a handOver your friend that loves...
Qs and TsIf the tag-rag people did notclap him and hiss him, according as he pleased anddispleased them, as they use to do the players inthe theatre, I am no true man. [...]Marry, before he fell do...
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, nowLeap in with me into this angry flood,And swim to yonder point?' Upon the w...
CASSIUS'Tis just,And it is very much lamented, Brutus,That you have no such mirrors as will turnYour hidden worthiness into your eyeThat you might see your shadow. I have heardWhere many of the bes...
Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous.I rather tell thee what is to be fear'dThan what I fear, for always I am Ca...
CASSIUS. Well, honor is the subject of my story.I cannot tell what you and other menThink of this life, but, for my single self,I had as lief not be as live to beIn awe of such a thing as I myself....
