Julius Caesar Flashcards
Cassius on fate
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars,
But in ourselves that we are underlings
Caesar on danger and lions
Danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he:
We are two lions littered in one day,
And I the elder and more terrible
Antony on Lepidus
It is a creature that I teach to fight,
To wind, to stop, to run directly on,
His corporal motion governed by my spirit
Cicero on fate
Men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves
Caesar as the northern star
“I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”
Why Brutus rose against Caesar
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Brutus’ Conflict between private and public through honor and friendship/loyalty(death
“Set honor in one eye and death in the other, And I will look on both indifferently.”
Antony apologizing to Caesar
“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever livèd in the tide of times. “
Antony describes Caesar’s wounds in great detail
“See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d; And as he pluck’d his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar follow’d it.”
Cassius criticising Rome
“What trash is Rome, What rubbish and what offal, when it serves For the base matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Caesar!”
Cassius on Brutus not seeing his own worthiness
“And it is very much lamented, Brutus, That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”
Brutus on his blood
“You are my true and honourable wife, as dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart”
Caesar on death and bravery
“Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant only taste of death but once.”
Caesar on those that threaten him
“Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me Ne’er looked but on my back. When they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanishèd.“
Calphurnia on fate
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
Casca on the owl
“And yesterday, the bird of night did sit, even at noon-day, upon the market-place, hooting and shrieking”
Cinna the poet on fate
I have no will to wander forth of doors, yet something leads me forth”
Falavius on Caear’s wings and feathers
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.
Cassius on honor to Brutus
Well, honour is the subject of my story
Cassius on him saving Caesar
Caesar cried, “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”
Cassius on Caesar as a sick girl
Alas, it cried ‘Give me some drink, Titinius,’
As a sick girl.
Cassius on Caesar as a colossus
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.
Cassius asking why Caesar has become so great
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?
Cassius on Brutus’ ancestor
There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.
