Julius Caesar Quotes Act 1-3

Act 3: "Fulfill your pleasures. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself apt to die.

Antony says this while he is mourning the loss of Caesar and says that without him, he has no will to live.

Act 1: "What means this shouting? I do fear the people choose Caesar for there king." "Ay, do you fear it? Then must I think you would not have it so."

Brutus and Cassius are talking about Caesar as there soon to be king. Cassius is twisting Brutus's words by making it sound like he doesn't want Caesar as his king.

Act 2: "Speak, strike, redress."

Brutus is referencing the letters forged by Cassius, Brutus must take action.

Act 3: "Fly not; stand still. Ambition's debt is paid."

Brutus is saying that Caesar died because he had too much ambition.

Act 3: "His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop, And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood"

Brutus is saying that he has given Caesar a favor by killing him and shortening the time he would spend fearing death.

Act 3: "I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death."

Brutus is saying that if he becomes like Caesar then he will kill himself for the greater good of Rome.

Act 1: "If it be aught toward the general good. Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other and I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honor more than I fear death."

Brutus is saying to Cassius that he will do anything for the good of Rome even if he might die.

Act 2: ""He would be crowned: How that might change his nature, there's the question."

Brutus says this line and he is questioning how Caesar would change when he becomes king. This happens right before he gets the letter from Cassius.

Act 3: "But I am constant as the Northern Star"

Caesar is saying that he is as immovable or firm as the Northern Star.

Act 2: "No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he."

Caesar is saying that he will not stay at home and is saying that he knows that he is dangerous which will not stop him from going to the capitol. This is an example of hubris.

Act 2: "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Caesar is saying that that brave people die literally or only once while cowards die figuratively since they are afraid to make decisions. He says this in the scene where Calpurnia tells him her dream.

Act 2: "Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions Are to the world in general as to Caesar."

Caesar is talking to Calpurnia and is saying that her bad omens from her dream apply more to the world in general than to Caesar.

Act 3: "Et tu, Brute?"

Caesar says this line and it means Caesar is in disbelief that his dear friend Brutus was part of the conspiracy and betrayed him.

Act 2: "Your wisdom is consumed in your confidence. "

Calpurnia tells Caesar that he is being naive to his circumstances, his hubris is getting in the way of his decision-making. This happens after she has the dream. Reference dream and the augers.

Act 3: "Speak, hands, for me!"

Casca is saying to let his hand speak for him.

Act: "Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night."

Cassius is comparing Caesar to all the dreadful things that happen that night.

Act 1: "Writings, all tending to the great opinion That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glancèd at And after this, let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure."

Cassius is devising his plan to forge letters to Brutus. The letters will be from the "romans" and will prasie Brutus and talk bad about Caesar's ambition.

Act 1: "There's a bargain made. Now know you, Casca, I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise Of honorable-dangerous consequence. And I do know by this they stay for me In Pompey's Porch."

Cassius is explaining to Casca on how he is planning a honorable but dangerous mission with other men (the conspirators).

Act 2: "Yet I fear him, for in the engrafted love he bears to Caesar."

Cassius is saying that Antony is a threat since he has loved Caesar for a long time.

Act 1: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

Cassius is saying that it is not destiny's fault but there own faults, that they are "slaves."

Act 1: "No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I and honest Casca, we ave the falling sickness."

Cassius is saying to Brutus that they are at fault for having to obey him.

Act 2: "For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let's be sacrifices but not butchers, Caius."

Cassius is telling Brutus that they should murder Antony with Caesar but Brutus is saying that he is not a threat and to focus on the point of killing Caesar only.

Act 2: "Break up the Senate till another time, When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams."

Decius is manipulating Caesar into going to the Capitol. He is basically saying that Caesar will go to the Capitol when his wife has good dreams and is mocking him or calling him a coward. This hurts Caesar's ego convincing him to go.

Act 2: "Caesar, I will. (Aside). And so near will I be That your best friends shall wish I had been further."

Trebonius gives an aside to the audience warning Caesar that the conspiracy will turn on him.