Julius Caesar is a famous tragedy play written by William Shakespeare that was first performed in 1599.
This play tells the narrative of the Roman general Julius Caesar and his assassination by his friend Brutus.
The play is a meditation on duty that examines the consequences of Caesar’s death.
Here is a curated list of the best quotes from Julius Caesar book.
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Julius Caesar Quotes by William Shakespeare
“For the eye sees not itself,
but by reflection, by some other things.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
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Best Julius Caesar Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“A piece of work that will make sick men whole.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
Who else would soar above the view of men
And keep us all in servile fearfulness.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
Quotes from Julius Caesar
“Let me have men about me that are fat,
…Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Et tu, Brute?” ― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar
“Beware the ides of March.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“I was born free as Caesar; so were you.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey?” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
Famous Julius Caesar Quotes
“How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Fill till the wine o’erswell the cup.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“You see we do, yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men’s blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. (Act II, Scene 2)” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
Profound Julius Caesar Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“That you do love me, I am nothing jealous.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.” ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.
“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 (quote from Julius Caesar).
“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.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
of that quick spirit that is in Antony.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.” ~ William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar
“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Julius Caesar).
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