Julius Caesar Shakespeare Quotes

I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Anthony.

– William Shakespeare

Poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.

– William Shakespeare

Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other
And I will look on both indifferently.

– William Shakespeare

Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

– William Shakespeare

Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.

– William Shakespeare

Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home:
Is this a holiday?

– William Shakespeare

I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter’s cold as well as he.

– William Shakespeare

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome.

– William Shakespeare

He had a fever when he was in Spain,
And when the fit was on him, I did mark
How he did shake; ’tis true, this god did shake.

– William Shakespeare

When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.

– William Shakespeare

Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers.

– William Shakespeare

Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

– William Shakespeare

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.

– William Shakespeare

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spiritp;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

– William Shakespeare

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.

– William Shakespeare

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 dishonourable graves.

– William Shakespeare

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking.

– William Shakespeare

Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

– William Shakespeare

For he is superstitious grown of late,
Quite from the main opinion he held once
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.

– William Shakespeare

‘Tis very like: he hath the falling sickness.

– William Shakespeare

He loves no plays,
As thou dost, Anthony.

– William Shakespeare

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noon-day, upon the market place,
Hooting and shrieking.

– William Shakespeare

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

– William Shakespeare

He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.

– William Shakespeare

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

– William Shakespeare

Such men as he be never at heart’s ease,
Whiles they behold a greater than themseles,
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee what is to be feared
Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar.

– William Shakespeare

Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?

– William Shakespeare

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.

– William Shakespeare