Quotes on Julius

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

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. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.

But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.