Top 100 Caesar Julius Quotes
#1. Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
#4. They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction "Alarum" confused Katie. She thought it had something to do with fire engines and whenever she came to that word, she shouted out "clang-clang." The children thought it was wonderful.
Betty Smith
#5. The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Julius Caesar
#6. I'm up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I'm tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.
Jarod Kintz
#7. As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Julius Caesar
#8. The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Thomas Bulfinch
#9. Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
Julius Caesar
#10. Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs.
Arthur Machen
#11. Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
Julius Caesar
#12. You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.
Thomas Mann
#13. I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle
Kanye West
#14. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.
Rose Christo
#15. The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Thomas Paine
#16. People readily believe what they want to believe.
Julius Caesar
#17. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
F.F. Bruce
#18. Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
Julius Caesar
#20. I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
David Hume
#21. The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
John Arbuthnot
#22. Classical Studies
Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?
Answer: Suspicious ones
Richard Benson
#23. We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.
Julius Caesar
#24. Julius Caesar walks into a bar. "I'll have a martinus," he says. The bartender
Various
#25. I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Julius Caesar
#26. 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
#27. As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar
#28. Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#29. When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is and when I watch him adjusting the parting with one finger, I cannot imagine that this man could conceive of such a wicked thing as to destroy the Roman constitution.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#30. Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
Plutarch
#31. Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
And as a suitor will I give him this.
My heart laments the virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;
If not, the fates with traitors do contrive.
William Shakespeare
#35. In war, important events result from trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
#36. When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.
Karen Joy Fowler
#37. The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another ...
Julius Caesar
#38. The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
Clive James
#39. It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
Julius Caesar
#41. War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Julius Caesar
#43. Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar
#44. It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both.
Saul David
#45. I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
Harold Prince
#48. It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
[Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]
Julius Caesar
#49. Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?
William Shakespeare
#50. You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.
Laura E. Richards
#51. The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.
Muriel Spark
#52. Carefully measure the depth of water when crossing your Rubicon in life. The river was shallow when Julius Caesar crossed 2000 years ago.
Shahid Hussain Raja
#53. Brutus, a young man, over the fleet and those Gallic vessels which he had ordered to be furnished by the Pictones and the Santoni, and the other provinces which remained at peace; and commands him to proceed towards the Veneti, as soon as he could. He himself hastens thither with the land forces.
Gaius Julius Caesar
#54. We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
Orson Scott Card
#55. I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?
Seth Grahame-Smith
#56. I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar
#57. Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the sun.
Alexander McCall Smith
#58. The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
Julius Caesar Scaliger
#60. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
William Shakespeare
#61. 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 dishonourable graves.
William Shakespeare
#62. If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
Julius Caesar
#64. I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
Julius Caesar
#66. Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
Barry Goldwater
#68. There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.
Billy Graham
#69. Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves.
Julius Caesar
#71. My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'
Katy Mixon
#72. Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar
#73. While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
Edward Hall
#74. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#75. I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
#76. The Roman historian Plutarch estimated that the civilized Romans under Julius Caesar, in his decade-long campaign in Gaul, destroyed 800 towns and villages and enslaved 3 million people.
Mark Kurlansky
#78. A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.
Julius Caesar
#80. 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
#81. Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have ... other options.
Julius Caesar
#82. 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.
Umberto Eco
#83. You should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the
Gary D. Schmidt
#84. Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He's not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we'll call 'populares,' which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for.
Michael Parenti
#85. Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine."
Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.
James Ellroy
#87. Julius Caesar was one of the thirty-four Roman emperors (out of the total of forty-nine that reigned until the division of the empire) who were killed by guards, high officials, or members of their own families.
Steven Pinker
#88. She taught me how to wear a Tangail saree, she taught me Julius Caesar. She taught me how to deal with the pain of a broken heart.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')
Kunal Sen
#90. As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
#91. I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
Julius Caesar
#92. Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia
Leah Marie Brown
#94. Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius.
William Shakespeare
#95. Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.
Dinesh D'Souza
#96. I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
Ian Doescher
#97. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#98. No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Julius Caesar
#99. I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.
Julius Caesar
#100. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
