Julius Caesar Quotes
17 quotes from Julius Caesar — Roman general, statesman, and dictator who conquered Gaul, crossed the Rubicon, and reformed Rome before his assassinat….
“Beware the ides of March.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“I am constant as the northern star.”
“Et tu, Brute? –then fall, Caesar.”
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”
“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.”
“I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. But I am constant as the Northern Star.”
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
“I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse.”
“Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.”
“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men.”
“All Gaul is divided into three parts.”
“The difference it could make to them turned on a mere quibble, since in plain fact "dictator" is exactly the same as "king.”
“Caesar was one of history's greatest leaders and one of its worst. Far from being just the blindly arrogant dictator of Shakespeare's play, Caesar was a visionary of mind-boggling versatility who excelled at politics, communications and war. But then there was his arrogance. He changed the world but nearly destroyed it.”
“One of the reasons why Caesar's Gallic Wars became a set text for generations and generations of schoolboys was not just because it showed a hero in his own voice — if you thought of Caesar as a hero — but it also had this extraordinarily disciplined, economical and beautiful use of language.”
“The die is cast.”
