Julius Caesar (play)

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Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath.

Contents 1 Act I 2 Act II 3 Act III 4 Act IV 5 Act V 6 Dialogue 7 External links

Act I

• But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
  • Casca, Act I, sc. ii

• Beware the ides of March.
  • Soothsayer, Act I, sc. ii

• 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.
  • Cassius, Act I, sc. ii

• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
  He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
  • Caesar, Act I, sc. ii

Act II

• Cowards die many times before their deaths;
  The valiant never taste of death but once.
  • Caesar, Act II, sc. ii

Act III

• Speak, hands, for me!
  • Casca, Act III, sc. i

• Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
  • Caesar, Act III, sc. i

• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
  • Cassius, Act III, sc. i

• O, pardon me, though bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
  • Antony, Act III sc. i

• Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war.
  • Antony, Act III, sc. i

• 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;
  So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
  Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
  If it were so, it is a grievous fault;
  And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
  Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, -
  For Brutus is an honorable man;
  So are they all, all honorable men, -
  Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
  He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
  But Brutus says he was ambitious;
  And Brutus is an honorable man.
  • Antony, Act III, sc. ii

• O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
  And men have lost their reason.
  • Antony, Act III, sc. ii

• My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
  and I must pause till it come back to me.
  • Antony, Act III, sc. ii

Act IV

• 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.
  • Brutus Act IV, sc. iii

Act V

• But to this same day
  Must end that work the ides of March began;
  And whether we shall meet again I know not.
  Therefore our everlasting farewell take:
  For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!
  If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
  If not, why, then this parting was well made.
  • Brutus, Act V, sc. i

• O, that a man might know
  The end of this day's business ere it come!
  But it sufficeth that the day will end,
  And then the end is known.
  • Brutus, Act V, sc. i

• So call the field to rest; and let's away,
  To part the glories of this happy day.
  • Octavius, Act V, sc. v

• Caesar, now be still:
  I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
  • Brutus, Act V, sc. v

• This was the noblest Roman of them all:
  All the conspirators, save only he,
  Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
  He only, in a general honest thought,
  And common good to all, made one of them.
  His life was gentle; and the elements
  So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
  And say to all the world, This was a man!
  • Antony, Act V, sc. v

Dialogue

• Caesar: The Ides of March are come.

Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone.

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