Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Julius Caesar.
Power Quotes
BRUTUSWhat means this shouting? I do fear the peopleChoose Caesar for their king.CASSIUS ...
Fate and Free Will Quotes
FLAVIUSThese growing feathers plucked 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. (1.1.77-80)
Friendship Quotes
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...
Art and Culture Quotes
CASCAIf the tag-rag people did notclap him and hiss him, according as he pleased anddispleased them, as they use to do the players in the theater, I am no true man. [...]Marry, before he fell...
Gender Quotes
CASSIUSFor once, upon a raw and gusty day,The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,Caesar said to me 'Dar'st thou, Cassius, nowLeap in with me into this angry floodAnd swim to yonder point?' Upon...
Manipulation Quotes
CASSIUS'Tis just,And it is very much lamented, Brutus,That you have no such mirrors as will turnYour hidden worthiness into your eye,That you might see your shadow. I have heardWhere many of the be...
Pride Quotes
CAESARSuch 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 fearedThan what I fear; for always I...
Principles Quotes
CASSIUSWell, 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. (...