Brutus Quotes

• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Eye

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Stars, Fate

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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• For Brutus is an honourable man;
  So are they all, all honourable men.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Honour

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

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• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Men, Ambitious

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]

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• For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Cutting, Judging

  William Shakespeare, William Oxberry, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Owen Fawcett (1822). “Julius Caesar: A Tragedy”, p.55

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• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  William Shakespeare

  Brutes, Treachery

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• The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

  Tom Shales

  Stars, Glasses, Television

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• Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

  Patrick Henry

  History, Firsts, Example

  Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.

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• But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

  John Green

  Stars, Cassius, Faults

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.80, Penguin UK

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• You also, O son Brutus.
  [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

  Julius Caesar

  Son, Murder, Brutes

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• The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Army, Years

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.12

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• Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
  Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
  Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
  It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

  Pusha T

  Weed, Jesus, Rap

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• 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.

  Samuel Fuller

  Drama, Lying, Deceit

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• A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

  Bruce Sterling

  Fall, Tyrants, Noble

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• Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

  Bill Moyers

  House, Term Limits, Afternoon

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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

  Tacitus

  Portraits, Cassius, Absence

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• Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.

  Tacitus

  Names, Twenties, Cassius

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• I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Long, Satan

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Hair, Upset

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• As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Eric, Scene

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Country, Jesus, Men

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• And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cutting, Dark, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.

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