The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Quotation and Character Matching

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"Now let it work: Mischief, thou art afoot,/ Thou take what course thou wilt"

Antony to himself once he incited a riot against the conspirators (3.2.261-2)

"You will compel me then to read the will?/Then make a ring across the corpse of Caesar/And let me show you him that made the will./ Shall I descend? And will you give me leave?"

Antony to the plebians (3.2.158-61)

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;/ I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"

Antony to the plebians (3.2.74-5)

"Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of/ Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna;/ trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber;/ Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius"

Artemidorus reading his letter to Caesar (3.3.1-5)

"O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit/ That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar"

Artemidorus to Caesar (3.1.6-7)

"Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius/ We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,/ And in the spirit of men there is no blood"

Brutus to Cassius (2.1.165-8)

"Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,/To cut the head off and then hack the limbs"

Brutus to Cassius and other conspirators (2.1.162-3)

"It must be by his death; and for my part,/ I know no personal cause to spurn at him"

Brutus to himself (in a soliloquy) (2.1.10-1)

"No, not an oath. If not the face of men,/ the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse"

Brutus to the conspirators (2.1.114-5)

"Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my/ cause, and be silent, that you may hear"

Brutus to the plebians (3.2.13-4)

"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as/ he was ambitious, I slew him"

Brutus to the plebians (3.2.26-7)

"Forget not in your speed, Antonius,/ To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say/ The barren, touched in this holy chase,/Shake off their sterile curse"

Caesar to Antony (1.1.6-9)

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

Caesar to Marc Antony ( 1.2.195-6)

"But I am constant as the Northern Star,/of whose true-fixed and resting quality/there is no fellow in the firmament./The skies are painted with unnumb'red sparks"

Caesar to the senators when Metellus Cimber asks for his brother to be pardoned (3.1.60-63)

"Thy evil spirit, Brutus"

Caesar's ghost to Brutus (4.3.281)

"To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi"

Caesar's ghost to Brutus (4.3.282)

"Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar"

Caesar's last words spoken to Brutus (3.1.77)

"Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,/ Yet now they fright me. There is one within,/ Besides, the things that we have heard and seen,/ Recounds most horrid nights seen by the watch./ A lioness hath whelped int he streets,/ And graves have yawned, and yielded up their dead"

Calpurnia to Caesar about the omens she has heard about (2.2.13-8)

"Why, there was a crown offered him; and being/offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,/thus; and then the people fell a-shouting"

Casca telling Cassius and Brutus how Caesar refused the crown (1.2.220-2)

"Speak hands for me!"

Casca to Caesar, as he is the first to stab him (3.1.76)

"it was Greek to me."

Casca to Cassius and Brutus (1.2.284)

He is set to die on the same day as his birthday.

Cassius

"The fault, dear Brutus, in not in our stars,/ But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

Cassius to Brutus (1.2.140-1)

"Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day/ See Brutus at his house. Three parts of him/ Is ours already, and the man entire/Upon the next encounter yields him ours."

Cassius to Casca (1.3.153-6)

"Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus./ If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius/He should not humor me. I will this night/ In several hands, in at his windows throw/ As if they came from several citizens,/Writings, all tending to the great opinion/ The Rome holds of his name"

Cassius to himself in a soliloquy (1.2.313-9)

"This dream is all amiss interpreted;/ It was a vision fair and fortunate:/ Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,/ In which so many smiling Romans bathed,/ Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck/ Reviving blood, and that great men shall press/ For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance./ This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.

Decius reinterprets Calpurnia's dream to Caesar (2.2.83-90)

"And know it now, the Senate have concluded/ To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar./ If you shall send them word you will not come,/ Their minds may change"

Decius tells Caesar the senate plans to crown him (2.2.93-6)

"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless/things!"

Marullus to the commoners (1.1.36-7)

He wrote 'The Life of Julius Caesar'

Plutarch

"I wish your enterprise today may thrive"

Popilius to Cassius before they walk into the senate (3.1.12)

"I have made strong proof of my constancy,/Giving myself a voluntary wound/Here in the thigh;"

Portia to Brutus (2.1.300-2)

"Beware the Ides of March."

Soothsayer to Caesar (1.2.18)

After the battle with Antony's army, Cassius believes his camp has been set on fire and sends this soldier to find out if the surrounding troops are friends or foes

Titinius

He wrote 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'

William Shakespeare


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