Familiar Quotations Part 26

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent that you may hear.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?

If any, speak: for him have I offended.

Act iii. Sc. 2..

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

If you have years, prepare to shed them now.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

See, what a rent the envious Casca made!

Act iii. Sc. 2.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Great Caesar fell.

O what a fall was there, my countrymen!

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Borne to rise and mutiny.

Act iv. Sc. 2.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

There is no terror, Ca.s.sius, in your threats For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pa.s.s by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

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.

Act v. Sc. 5.

His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world, _This was a man_!

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

Act i. Sc. 1.