CAESAR

Related Subjects: Ambition, Dictatorship

1. Caesar, in modesty mixed with greatness, did for his pleasure apply. the name of a Commentary to the best history of the world.—BACON, Advancement of Learning
   

2. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.—Bible, Matthew 22:21
   

3. What millions died—that Caesar might be great!—THOMAS CAMPBELL, The Pleasures of Hope
   

4. Every woman's man and every man's woman.—CURIO, of Julius Caesar: Suetonius
   

5. The assassination of Julius Caesar was not in good taste.—GOETHE
   

6. "It is not," said Caesar, "these well-fed, long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking"; meaning Brutus and Cassius, by whose conspiracy he afterwards fell.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

7. Caesar once, seeing some wealthy strangers at Rome, carrying up and down with them in their arms and bosoms young puppy-dogs and monkeys, embracing and making much of them, took occasion not unnaturally to ask whether the women in their country were not used to bear children.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

8. When asked why he parted with his wife, Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

9. Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

10. Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee!—Salutation of the Gladiators
    

11. There be many Caesars,
    Ere such another Julius.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

12. Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet
    Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues
    Be theme and hearing ever.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

13. Caesar's ambition,
    Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch
    The sides o' the world.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

14. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
    A little ere the mightiest Julius f ell,
    The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
    Did squeal and gibber in the Roman streets.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

15. No bending knee will call thee Caesar now.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

16. Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
    That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
    Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

17. Great Caesar fell.
    O! what a fall was there, my countrymen;
    Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
    Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

18. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears;
    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

19. Caesar had perished from the world of men,
    Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.—HENRY VAUGHAN, On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library