English Famous Lines In Julius Caesar

Front 1

"Beware the ides of March"

Back 1

1.2.21
Soothsayer speaking to Caesar. telling him to watch out for march 15th

Front 2

...he doth bestride the narrow world/
Like a Colossus, and we petty men/ Walk under his huge legs and peep about/ To find dishonorable graves

Back 2

1.2.142-45
Cassius speaking to brutus. he is telling him that people are walking under and worshiping a bronze status (colossus), just like they are the caesar. cassius thinks this is not right

Front 3

the fault, dear brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves

Back 3

1.2.147-48
Cassius speaking to Brutus. saying that it is there fault that Caesar is ruling them and not that they are not ruling Rome.

Front 4

Upon what meant doth this our Caesar feed/ That he is grown so great?

Back 4

1.2.158-59
Cassius speaking to Brutus. His is saying what has Caesar eaten to make him more powerful

Front 5

Let me have men about me that are fat

Back 5

1.2.202
Caesar talking to Antony. He wants men that are fat because they dont think as much and all they want is food.

Front 6

But for mine own part, it was Greek to me

Back 6

1.2.294-95
Casca speaking to Cassius and Brutus. He is saying he didnt understand what Cicero was saying because he was speaking greek

Front 7

cowards die many times before their deaths;/ The valiant never taste of death but once

Back 7

2.2.34
Caesar speaking to Caphurnia. He is saying that cowards are scared and fill hide from death but valiant people are brave and will face it when it comes

Front 8

Danger knows full well/ That Caesar is more dangerous than he./ We are two lions littered in one day,/ And I elder and more terrible

Back 8

2.2.47-50
Caesar talking to Caphurnia when she doesnt want him to go out because of her dream. Caesar is saying that he is more dangerous than danger itself. He is also comparing danger and himself to lions and how he is the older and terrible lion

Front 9

Know: Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause/ Will he be satisfied

Back 9

3.1.52-53
Caesar speaking to Metellus Cimber. His is saying that he does not act unjustly and be glad to grant the pardon.

Front 10

Et tu, Brute?- then Caesar falls

Back 10

3.1.85
Caesar is speaking to brutus. he is asking brutus why he betraying him. then he dies

Front 11

O mighty Caesar, dost thou so low?/ Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils/ Shrunk to this measure?
3.1.164-66

Back 11

Antony is talking to dead Caesar. He is saying all of Caesars good deeds and victories have not been given the credit that they deserve. Antony is sad that Caesar is dead

Front 12

Thou are the ruins of the noblest man/ That ever lived in the tide of times. 3.1.282-83

Back 12

Antony is talking to dead Caesar. he is saying that caesar is the noblest man that lived in this time period

Front 13

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war
3.1.299

Back 13

Antony talking to dead caesar. He is saying an omen that Caesar's ghost will shout havoc which means will kill anyone that they find and will unleash fighting dogs. he is saying an omen on the conspirator.

Front 14

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my/ cause
3.2.14-15

Back 14

Brutus is talking to the roman audience. he is asking them if they will listen to his speech that explains why he killed caesar

Front 15

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.
3.2.82-85

Back 15

antony is addressing the crowd and asking them if they will listen to his speech. He says he is only bury caesar not praising him. He is also saying that the people will remember caesar who his bad things and not his good things.

Front 16

ambition should be made of sterner stuff
3.2.101

Back 16

antony speaking to the crowd. he is saying that Caesar was not ambitious because he wept when the poor wept. also he is saying if caesar was ambitious that ambitious must have a harsher meaning

Front 17

o judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,/ and men have lost their reason
3.2.114-15

Back 17

antony speaking to crowd. he is saying that men have lost their opinions of caesar being good

Front 18

this was the most unkindest cut of all
3.2.195

Back 18

antony is talking to the crowd. antony is saying that brutus' stab to caesar was the worst one because caesar really trusted and brutus betrayed him

Front 19

this is a ride between men/ which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
4.3.249-50

Back 19

brutus is talking to cassius. he is saying that men should follow the current ( go where life takes you) and that will lead to success

Front 20

o julius caesar, thou art mighty yet;/ they spirit walks abroad and turns our swords/ in our own proper entrails
5.3.105-7

Back 20

brutus is talking to dead caesar.he is saying he is not mighty and that he is the one killing brutus soldiers by stabbing their swords into their hearts

Front 21

this was the noblest roman of them all.../ his life was gentle and the elements/ so mixed in him that nature might stand up/and say " This was the man"
5.5.74, 78-79

Back 21

antony is saying brutus was the noblest because he had so much good in him that people around him will recognize him as that man