1)
"Beware the ides of March."
The soothsayer's
warning to Caesar.
Act 1, Scene 2, line 18
2) "Yond Cassius
has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
Caesar giving his
opinion about Cassius.
Act 1 Scene 2, lines 194-95
3)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never
taste of death but once."
Caesar speaking to
his wife Calphurnia.
Act 2 Scene 2, lines 32-33
4)
"Et tu, Brute?"
Caesar as he is stabbed by Brutus.
Act 3, Scene 1,
line 77
5) "Caesar's
spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell,
Shall in these
confines, with a monarch's voice
Cry, 'Havoc!"
and let slip the dogs of war."
Antony
speaking of the civil war that will follow Caesar's death
Act 3, Scene 1, lines 270-273
6)
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more."
Brutus
speaking to the crowd, justifying the assassination.
Act 3, Scene 2, lines 21-22
7)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury
Caesar, not to praise him."
The opening words
of Antony's funeral oration.
Act 3, Scene 2,
lines 73-74
8)
"For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all,
honorable men."
Antony's
ironic statement about the assassins.
Act 3, Scene 2, lines 82-83
9)
"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 speaking to
Cassius, advocating immediate action.
Act 4, Scene 3,
lines 218-224
10)
"This was the noblest Roman of them all."
Antony paying
tribute to the dead Brutus.
Act 5 Scene 3, line 68.
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