Julius Caesar key quotes: every quotation analysed

Marcus Brutus — 12 quotations

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Caius Cassius — 6 quotations

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Mark Antony — 6 quotations

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Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character) — 6 quotations

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Portia — 6 quotations

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The quotations by theme

Honour and friendship (15)

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• “I love / The name of honour more than I fear death.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 1, Scene 2
• “It must be by his death” — Marcus Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
• “Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
• “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 3, Scene 2
• “Caesar, now be still: / I killed not thee with half so good a will.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 5, Scene 5
• “This was the noblest Roman of them all” — Marcus Brutus, Act 5, Scene 5
• “A friendly eye could never see such faults.” — Caius Cassius, Act 4, Scene 3
• “O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and…” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 1
• “For Brutus is an honourable man” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2
• “Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 3, Scene 1
• “Dwell I but in the suburbs / Of your good pleasure?” — Portia, Act 2, Scene 1
• “Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.” — Portia, Act 2, Scene 1
• “I grant I am a woman; but withal / A woman that Lord Brutus took to…” — Portia, Act 2, Scene 1
• “Giving myself a voluntary wound / Here, in the thigh” — Portia, Act 2, Scene 1
• “swallowed fire” — Portia, Act 4, Scene 3

Power, ambition and tyranny (13)

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• “Brutus had rather be a villager / Than to repute himself a son of Rome” — Marcus Brutus, Act 1, Scene 2
• “It must be by his death” — Marcus Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
• “kill him in the shell” — Marcus Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
• “ambition's debt is paid” — Marcus Brutus, Act 3, Scene 1
• “he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus” — Caius Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2
• “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look” — Caius Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2
• “And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?” — Caius Cassius, Act 1, Scene 3
• “Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 1
• “Mischief, thou art afoot” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2
• “Let me have men about me that are fat” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 1, Scene 2
• “Caesar shall go forth” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 2, Scene 2
• “I am constant as the northern star” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 3, Scene 1
• “How hard it is for women to keep counsel!” — Portia, Act 2, Scene 4

Rhetoric and persuasion (7)

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• “Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, / I have not slept.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1
• “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” — Marcus Brutus, Act 3, Scene 2
• “as he was ambitious, I slew him” — Marcus Brutus, Act 3, Scene 2
• “Thy honourable metal may be wrought / From that it is disposed” — Caius Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2
• “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2
• “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2
• “For Brutus is an honourable man” — Mark Antony, Act 3, Scene 2

Fate, omens and free will (4)

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• “There is a tide in the affairs of men” — Marcus Brutus, Act 4, Scene 3
• “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves…” — Caius Cassius, Act 1, Scene 2
• “Beware the ides of March.” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 1, Scene 2
• “Cowards die many times before their deaths” — Julius Caesar (Shakespeare's character), Act 2, Scene 2