Quotes from work

Julius Caesar

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”

“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.”

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.”

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

“And it is very much lamented,…
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.”

“The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

“And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”