Quote
Act one Sc. 1
“A trade sir, that I hope I may use with a safe
conscience, which is indeed sir, a mender of bad
soles.” (second commoner)
“Disrobe the images if you do find them decked
with ceremonies.” (Flavius)
Act one Sc. 2
“When Caesar says ‘Do this,’ it is performed”
(Antony)
“Beware the ides of March.” (soothsayer)
“the eye sees not itself but by reflection by
some other things.” (Brutus)
“I do fear the people choose Caesar for their
king.” (Brutus)
“I love the name of honor more than I fear
death.” (Brutus)
“He[Caesar] doth bestride the narrow world like
a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his
huge legs and peep about to find ourselves
dishonorable graves.” (Cassius)
“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.” (Cassius)
“Yond Cassisus has a lean and hungry look; he
thinks too much, such men are dangerous.”
(Caesar)
“Such men as he be never at heart’s ease whiles
they behold a greater than themselves.”
(Caesar)
Analysis
“He (Caesar) hath the falling sickness.” (Brutus)
“No, Caesar hath not it; but you, and I and
honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.”
(Cassius)
“Well Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see thy
honorable mettle may be wrought from that it
is disposed…for who so firm that cannot be
seduced.” (Cassius)
Act 1 sc. 3
“A common slave held up his left hand, which
did flame and burn like twenty torches joined..I
met a lion who glared upon me, and went surly
by without annoying me.” (Casca)
“But if you would consider the true cause…now
could I, Casca, name to thee a man most like
this dreadful night.” (Cassius)
“Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.”
(Cassius)
“And why should Caesar be a tyrant then? Poor
man! I know he would not be a wolf but that he
sees the Romans are but sheep;” (Cassius)
“O, he (Brutus) sits high in all the people’s
hearts, and that which would appear offense in
us, his countenance, like richest alchemy, will
change to virtue and to worthiness.” (Casca)