Citations

Citations from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Identify the speaker, the audience, state the purpose, and explain the meaning of the following citations. (Say Mean Matter)

''You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!'' (I.1.32)

"Let no images be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about and drive away the vulgar from the streets." (1.1.75)

"Beware the ides of March." (I.2.18)

"I am not gamesome. I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony." (1.2.27-28)

"What means this shouting? I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king. (I.2.85)

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about..." (1.2.143)

"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." (1.2.146-8)

"Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" (1.2.192-193)

"He fell down in the marketplace and foamed at mouth and was speechless." (1.2.263)

"It was Greek to me." (I.2.295)

''0 Cassius, if you could but win the noble Brutus to our party.'' (I. 3.139-140)

"Why, there was a crown offered him; and, being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus, and then the people fell a-shouting." (1.2.232)

"No, not an oath ... If these be motives weak, break off betimes." (2.1.114-116)

"Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods." (2.1.173)

"Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily. Let not our looks put on our purposes.'' (2.1.224-225)

"0 ye gods, render me worthy of this noble wife!" (2.1.302-303)

••speak, strike, redress.'' (2.1.58)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once." (2.2.33-34)

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” (2.2.34)

"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." (2.2.37)

"Do not go forth today. Call it my fear that keeps you in the house, and not your own. We’ll send Mark Antony to the Senate House,

And he shall say you are not well today." (2.2.57)

"If thou read this, 0 Caesar, thou mayest live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.'' (2.3.11-12)

"But I am constant as the Northern Star ... " (3. 1. 60)

''Et tu Brute? Then fall, Caesar!'' (3.1.77)

"Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets." (3.1.86)

"Stoop, Romans, stoop, and let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood up to the elbows and besmear our swords." (3.1.119)

''0, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am meek and gentle with these butchers." (3.1.280)

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!” (3.1.299)

"Romans, countrymen, lovers! Hear me for my cause ... " (3.2.13)

" ... not that I loved Caesar less, but I love Rome more ... " (3.2.18)

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him. As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But, as he was ambitious, I slew him." (3.2.28)

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ... " (3.2.63)

"For Brutus is an honorable man." (3.2.71)

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” (3.2.85)

"This was the most unkindest cut of all." (3.2.195)

"Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny." (3.2.197-198)

''It is no matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going.'' (3.3.30)

"He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him." (4.1.6)

"I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me. For I can raise no money by vile means-" (4.3.69-70)

" ... with this she fell distract, And [when] her attendants [were] absent, [she] swallowed fire." (4.3.154-155)

''Thy evil spirit, Brutus.'' (4.3.281)

"Oh, 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." (5.1.123-126)

"But this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun; 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; (5.2.126)

"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made." (5.2.128)

''Caesar, thou art revenged, Even with the sword that killed thee.'' (5.3.45-46)

"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords in our own proper entrails.'' (5.3.94-96)

"Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay." (5.3.101-1-2)

"The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me ... I know my hour is come." (5.5.17-20)

"Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face While I do run upon it." (5.5.46-47)

"Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will." (5.5.49-50)

''This was the noblest Roman of them all.'' (5.5.67)