Julius Caesar Shakespeare Quotes

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

– William Shakespeare

Not let it work; mischief, thou art afoot,
Take thou what course thou wilt!

– William Shakespeare

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men:
And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.

– William Shakespeare

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

– William Shakespeare

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

– William Shakespeare

But were I Brutus,
And Brutus Anthony, there were an Anthony
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

– William Shakespeare

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

– William Shakespeare

For I have neither, wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech,
To stir men’s blood; I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

– William Shakespeare

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.

– William Shakespeare

He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

– William Shakespeare

Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.

– William Shakespeare

You yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm.

– William Shakespeare

I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Did I say ‘better’?

– William Shakespeare

O, that a man might know
The end of this day’s business ere it come!

– William Shakespeare

The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!

– William Shakespeare

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made.

– William Shakespeare

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

Good reasons must, of force, give way to better.

– William Shakespeare

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.

– William Shakespeare

We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

– William Shakespeare

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.

– William Shakespeare

The foremost man of all this world.

– William Shakespeare

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.

– William Shakespeare

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

– William Shakespeare

Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a note-book, learned, and conned by rote,
To cast into my teeth.

– William Shakespeare

A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

– William Shakespeare