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Julius Caesar

Booklet of Quotations

Make a booklet of twenty illustrated quotations from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. Choose a picture from a magazine or create your original drawings to illustrate quotes from the play. You may choose meaningful lines or passages of choice or use famous lines selected below. You must write or type the quote beneath the illustration, stating the play’s author, title, act, scene, and line numbers. You will be required to create a decorative cover for the booklet and give the booklet a catchy title.

Quotations from Julius Caesar

1. A surgeon to old shoes. Act I. i, 1 2. As proper men as ever trod upon neat’s leather. Act I, i, 27 3. Have you not made a universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,

To hear the replication of your sounds made in her concave shores? Act I sc. I, 48 4. Beware the Ides of March. Act I, ii, 18 5. Set honor in one eye and death in the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

Act I, ii, 86 6. Why, man, he 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. Men at some times are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Act I, ii, 134

7. Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great. Act I, ii,

148 8. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of

men. Act I, ii, 200 9. Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort as if he mock’d himself, and scorn’d

his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. Act I, ii, 204 10. So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. Act

I, iii, 101

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11. ‘Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Where to the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks unto the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. Act II, i, 32

12. Therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which, hatch’d, would as his kind, grow

mischievous, And kill him in the shell. Act II, I, 32 13. Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

Act II, I, 173 14. When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth

the death of princes. Act II, ii, 30 15. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but

once, Of all the wonders I have yet heard, It seems to me strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Act II, ii, 116

16. How hard it is for women to keep counsel! Act II, iv, 9 17. Et tu, Brute! Act II, i, 77 18. 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. Act III, ii, 194 19. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause; and be silent that you

may hear. III, ii, 13 20. As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. Act III, ii,

22 21. Friends, Romans, countrymen; Lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar not to

praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. Act III, ii, 79

22. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of

sterner stuff. Act III, ii, 97 23. O! what a fall was there, my countrymen; Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,

Whilst bloody treason flourished over us. Act III, ii, 194 24. I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Act IV, iii, 27

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25. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Act IV, iii, 217

26. A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities. Act IV, iii, 85 27. The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity. Act IV,

iii, 225 28. O! that a man might know The end of this day’s business ere come. Act V, I, 123 29. O Julius Caesar! Thou art might yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our

swords In our own proper entrails. Act V, iii, 94 30. The last of all the Romans, fare thee well! Act V, iii, 94 31. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up

and say to all the world, “This was a man!” Act V, v, 73